Harris embraces Supreme Court term limits that could retire Thomas by 2025

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Harris embraces Supreme Court term limits that could retire Thomas by 2025
By
Kaelan Deese
September 9, 2024 2:05 pm
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The Harris-Walz campaign at last posted policy positions on its website Monday, proposing a plan that would possibly result in the forced retirement of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas by next year, along with two more Republican-appointed justices before the next decade.

Released a day before Vice President Kamala Harris heads to the debate stage against former President Donald Trump, the policy outline includes so-called commonsense Supreme Court reforms such as “imposing term limits.” It’s unclear how long Harris believes a justice should remain on the high court before he or she would be automatically forced into retirement, and her campaign dedicated more attention and detail on its website toward attacking Trump for the three justices he nominated during his single term in office.

“Donald Trump handpicked members of the United States Supreme Court to take away reproductive freedom — and now he brags about it,” the campaign wrote, according to a section on her website under “Restore And Protect Reproductive Freedoms.”

However, Harris’s campaign has reportedly indicated her position is “aligned” with a more detailed plan to replace at least three Republican-appointed justices by 2029, according to a statement from her ally Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) to the Dispatch last month.

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[Smokin Joe]

After RBG stuck it out?
No, just no.
Thomas is one of the best jurists on the court in a long time.

This is just an attack by a rogue executive branch on the SCOTUS because they have ruled against their unconstitutional nonsense.

[berdie]

After RBG stuck it out?
No, just no.
Thomas is one of the best jurists on the court in a long time.

This is just an attack by a rogue executive branch on the SCOTUS because they have ruled against their unconstitutional nonsense.

Good point about RBJ.

So if they decide on term limits for the Supremes...I assume the would decide on term limits for Congress? It's only fair and right.

[Hoodat]

The Harris-Walz campaign at last posted policy positions on its website Monday, proposing a plan that would possibly result in the forced retirement of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas by next year, along with two more Republican-appointed justices before the next decade.

Uh, no.  There is no plan proposed on their website.  No explanation whatsoever on how they plan to achieve this.  Nothing.  Zip.  Nada.  Just a wish list with zero substance.

Here is the totality of her 'proposed plan' [sic] posted on her website:

Ensure No One Is Above the Law
Vice President Harris believes that no one is above the law. She’ll fight to ensure that no former president has immunity for crimes committed while in the White House. She will also support common-sense Supreme Court reforms—like requiring Justices to comply with ethics rules that other federal judges are bound by and imposing term limits—to address the crisis of confidence facing the Supreme Court.

https://kamalaharris.com/issues/

I am very interested in hearing how she plans to go about this.  Or more specifically, how one swearing an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution will openly defy the Constitutional protections and powers of the Judiciary Branch.

[Hoodat]

Thomas is one of the best jurists on the court in a long time.

He should have been Chief Justice.  Don't know what the hell GWB was thinking.