I'm John Batchler. I welcome my good colleague, Professor Richard Epstein of the Civitas Institute. He teaches law at NYU and the University of Chicago to comment on a long-shot bill proposed by a Maryland Democrat recently. The bill puts limits on Supreme Court judges length of service.

The proposal for an 18-year term

limits

requires a constitutional amendment

and has virtually no chance

of becoming law,

writes Newsweek,

and forcing Justice Alito

to step down,

Clarence Thomas and John Roberts, all of whom have served more than two decades into retirement.

Okay, that's the present circumstance, but I welcome Richard to comment on something that I've been noticing for some time and puzzling about what's driving it.

That is, repeatedly denouncing the Supreme Court as illegitimate.

In fact, the minority leader of the House of Representatives, Mr. Jeffreys, recently used that very

word for the Supreme Court. This is a third branch of government, being mocked or derided by

the first branch of government. In between, of courseided by the first branch of government.

In between, of course, is the second, the presidency.

However, the Supreme Court is the one part of government that clearly means to stay out of

politics, and yet the Democrats are attacking.

So I thought to myself, wasn't part of the Warren Court of the 1950s and 60s,

that it was attacked routinely by conservatives across the country? At that time, there weren't

just conservative Republicans. They were also conservative Democrats. Richard, a very good evening

to you. Denouncing the court, is that just business as usual in

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