'Rot and decay': Rep Hank Johnson argues SCOTUS term limits are path forward for removing 'corrupt' justices
Vice President Harris has voiced support for justice term limits like in Johnson's bill
By Haley Chi-Sing Fox News
Georgia Democrat Rep. Hank Johnson, a strong proponent of Supreme Court reform, says term limits for the justices is a way to eliminate "the possibility of long-term rot and decay" that he argues is present on the high court now.
"Term limits is a way of creating a process that eliminates the possibility of long-term rot and decay due to corporate corruption on the court that we have now with no means of being able to correct it other than impeachment and conviction of a justice," Johnson told Fox News Digital in an interview Thursday.
"And if you could not impeach and convict Donald Trump, you're certainly not going to be able to remove a corrupt Supreme Court justice from office when he or she is doing the bidding of the right-wing forces that put them there in the very beginning."
Johnson, a ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, previously teamed up with Democrats in both the House and Senate to propose court reform bills in an effort to both expand the court and impose term limits on the justices. During Congress' most recent session, Johnson introduced the Supreme Court Tenure Establishment and Retirement Modernization Act (TERM) that would impose 18-year term limits on justices.
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