Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States
Endnotes: Chapter 3
- ↑ Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States 5 (July 16, 2021) (written testimony of the Supreme Court Practitioners’ Committee), https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Geller-Mahoney-Testimony.pdf.
- ↑ See, e.g., Maggie Jo Buchanan, The Need for Supreme Court Term Limits, Ctr. for Am. Progress (Aug. 3, 2020), https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/courts/reports/2020/08/03/488518/need-supreme-court-term-limits; Lee Drutman, It’s Time for Term Limits for Supreme Court justices, Vox (June 27, 2018), https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/polyarchy/2018/6/27/17511030/supreme-court-term-limits-retirement.
- ↑ See, e.g., Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States 2 (July 20, 2021) (written testimony of Akhil Amar, Yale Law School), https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Amar-Testimony.pdf; Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States 6 (June 30, 2021) (written testimony of Michael W. McConnell, Stanford Law School), https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/McConnell-SCOTUS-Commission-Testimony.pdf. One scholar who testified to the Commission, and had been against term limits for the Court in the mid-2000s, now favored term limits and explained why her view had changed since then. See Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States 1–2 (July 20, 2021) (written testimony of Vicki C. Jackson, Harvard Law School), https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Jackson-Testimony.pdf (citing Vicki C. Jackson, Packages of Independence: The Selection and Tenure of Article III Judges, 95 Geo. L.J. 965, 1007–08 (2007)).
- ↑ Compare Robert P. George, Michael W. McConnell, Colleen A. Sheehan & Ilan Wurman, The Conservative Constitution, Nat’l Const. Ctr. (2020), https://constitutioncenter.org/media/files/The_Conservative_Constitution.pdf, with Caroline Fredrickson, Jamal Greene & Melissa Murray, The Progressive Constitution, Nat’l Const. Ctr. (2020), https://constitutioncenter.org/media/files/The_Progressive_Constitution.pdf.
- ↑ See, e.g., J. Harvie Wilkinson III, Supreme Court Term Limits Wouldn't Solve Anything, Wash. Post (Oct. 17, 2021), https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/18/supreme-court-term-limits-wouldnt-solve-anything; Stephen B. Burbank, Alternative Career Resolution II: Changing the Tenure of Supreme Court Justices, 154 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1511 (2006) (offering criticisms of the main reform proposals and the critiques of life tenure); Ward Farnsworth, The Regulation of Turnover on the Supreme Court, 2005 U. Ill. L. Rev. 407 (2005) (defending the system of life tenure); William G. Ross, The Hazards of Proposals to Limit the Tenure of Federal Judges and to Permit Judicial Removal Without Impeachment, 35 Vill. L. Rev. 1063 (1990); David R. Stras & Ryan W. Scott, Retaining Life Tenure: The Case for a “Golden Parachute,” 83 Wash. U. L.Q. 1397, 1397 (2005).
- ↑ See State Supreme Courts, Ballotpedia, https://ballotpedia.org/State_supreme_courts (detailing the election or appointment procedure for each state); D.C. Code § 11-1502 (2021) (exemplifying a law with a mandatory retirement age and renewable terms); Francis X. Shen, Aging Judges, 81 Ohio State L.J. 235 app. (2020) (providing mandatory retirement age data); Council of State Gov’ts, The Book of the States 189 tbl.5.1 (2019) (furnishing term length data); Sandra Schultz Newman & Daniel Mark Isaacs, Historical Overview of the Judicial Selection Process in the United States: Is the Electoral System in Pennsylvania Unjustified?, 49 Vill. L. Rev. 1 app. (2004) (providing state-by-state data on selection processes, term lengths, and retirement requirements).
- ↑ See State Supreme Courts, supra note 6; D.C. Code § 11-1502 (2021).
- ↑ See State Supreme Courts, supra note 6.
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