{"id":304,"date":"2007-10-23T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/10\/23\/supreme-court-term-limits\/"},"modified":"2007-10-23T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T00:58:00","slug":"supreme-court-term-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/10\/23\/supreme-court-term-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"supreme court term limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/566-oldjudge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124051336055173458\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/567-oldjudge.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>every presidential cycle, it seems we get more talk and hand-wringing about how <em>this <\/em>election will forever alter the composition of the u.s. supreme court. true, yes, but it ain&#8217;t <em>necessarily <\/em>so. what if we imposed term limits on those Justices?<\/p>\n<p>npr&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.Justicetalking.org\/viewprogram.asp?progID=630\">Justice talking<\/a> <\/em>took up the issue of supreme court term limits this week. personally, i&#8217;m often more flummoxed by the opinions of the court&#8217;s junior members, but you might want to <a href=\"\/\/128.91.58.209\/JusticeTalking\/WMA\/Segments\/071015_LindgrenInterview.wma\">listen to<\/a> jim lindgren&#8217;s proposal and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/editorial\/feature.html?id=110006539\">read<\/a> his case against &#8220;gerontocracy&#8221; in the judicial branch. an excerpt:<\/p>\n<p>While mental incompetence was rare in the first century on the Court, since 1898 it has become a regular occurrence for Justices who serve more than 18 years; by one estimate about a third were mentally incompetent to serve before they finally retired.<\/p>\n<p>yeesh. next thing you know, professor lindgren will be training his sights on tenured college professors and long-serving football coaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>every presidential cycle, it seems we get more talk and hand-wringing about how this election will forever alter the composition of the u.s. supreme court. true, yes, but it ain&#8217;t necessarily so. what if we imposed term limits on those Justices? npr&#8217;s Justice talking took up the issue of supreme court term limits this week. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}