This is the Kano Daily podcast for Tuesday, November 8th, 2022.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Should members of the U.S. Supreme Court be term or time limited?

Akeil Reed Amar is the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University.

He spoke on behalf of the idea of limiting the time that justices may serve.

Professor Amar spoke at the Cato Institute's Constitution Day event.

This is a portion of his full remarks.

In a bipartisan op-ed published in the Washington Post on August 9, 2002.

Stephen G. Calabrazi, the co-founder and co-chair

of the Federal Society, and I floated the idea

that each justice should do 18 years of full and active

service on the court and should thereafter have a different portfolio of

judicial responsibilities.

The bipartisan co-authorship of this 2002 op-ed was purposeful.

The 18-year idea was then and remains today neither left nor right, neither blue nor red.

I was then and remain today a mainstream Democrat and Steve was then and remains today a mainstream Republican. And Steve was then and remains today a mainstream Republican.

For example, in 2000, I voted for Al Gore, where Steve voted for George W Bush.

In 2016, I voted for Hillary Clinton, Steve, for Donald Trump. When I first publicly

embraced the 18-year idea, a Republican sat in the White House. Republicans controlled the House, and the Senate was almost evenly

divided.

Today, the partisan alignment is almost exactly the opposite, a Democrat sits in the White House, Democrats control the House. the year idea a good one. Indeed in the two decades since I began mulling the 18 year

idea I've become even more persuaded that the root idea is a good one. I've

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