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New Supreme Court Revelations Push the Case for Term Limits

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Michael Waldman : Justice Samuel Alito had drafted an opinion dropping federal charges against many of the January 6 insurrectionists who violently stormed the Capitol .

He says Chief Justice John Roberts quietly took Alito ’s embarrassing name off the opinion and slipped his own name onto it instead.

Waldman says the revelations paint a damning and indelible picture of how Roberts steered the Court to shield Trump from accountability.

We’ve argued for an 18-year term limit for Supreme Court justices, because nobody should have too much public power for too long. And we’ve urged a binding code of ethics, which would have forced Justices Alito and Clarence Thomas to step out of these key cases. These reforms are widely popular. Most recently, a Fox News poll this summer found that 78 percent support term limits. The Court is a broken institution. It’s time to fix it. The latest revelations remind us that otherwise, the fix is in..

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