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Forcing Trump to Make Recess Appointments, the Catalyst for Term Limit for Supreme Court Justices

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With the politicization resulting from the open SCOTUS seat after the death of Antonin Scalia's death, it's worth asking why we don't subject our high court justices to limited terms or mandatory retirement ages -- like nearly every other country in the world.

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In a 2015 poll, only 17 percent said they supported life tenure, while 66 percent of Democrats and 74 percent of Republicans supported the 10-year proposal - a strong, and rare, show of bipartisanship.

Term Limits would mean a Court that more accurately reflects the changes and judgments of the society.

Forcing Trump to make recess appointments would create SCOTUS term limits of as short as less than one year, thereby putting the proverbial gun to the head of the establishment to seriously consider a constitutional amendment which is necessary for supreme court justice term limits.
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