Former Justice Stephen Breyer weighs in on SCOTUS term limits 

How are they ruining us? They haven't done anything unconstitutional.

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Amen. Demand SCOTUS do their job ethically.

Yes we need term limits the minute the supreme Court has a majority conservative all the decades we had a majority leftist nobody on the left wanted term limits 😂😂😂😂. The Democrats don't follow the Constitution they've already taken away the constitutional right to life. They've already created laws infringing on our right to bear arms. They've already created laws taken away our constitutional right to free speech and practice religion by compelling Us in speech to acknowledge their gender Faith as both a physical and moral reality. Democrats ignore the right to life and then they push Jewish talmud law which is abortion all the way up to birth. This is the United States not israel. I don't know if one Democrat politician who doesn't support the Jewish talmudic law on abortion rather than supporting the Constitution

To both? So we can hold those judges accountable?

Only Thomas and Alito? That's pretty one sided.

Ok then...add Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Roberts to the list.@@dlc2112dlc

Why are you a communist ?

Tfg is simply the figurehead of an America that's off the rails. We need to adapt. We need to make some corrections. And we need to make changes to SCOTUS before they do irreparable harm to the country. Of course, that is just one problem, but this is too limited a forum to get into it all. But most who read this know.

If it's that bad the legislature can impeach.......

MINIMALLY there need to be ethics for recusal, where it's no longer up to the Justice to decide if they'll recuse themselves for conflict of interest. We need an ethics code that says they WILL recuse for conflicts of interest, period end of sentence.

"We should aspire to be more like Canada or Mexico" LOLOLOL

You guys need to build the wall

Yeah... I don't get the rationale behind Justices dying in their posts.

What has that got to do with it?

I think there is also a 15 year limit, or age 75, whichever comes first.

As a conservative, I agree.

Interesting how left is all of a sudden support this idea after conservatives took over the supreme Court. I know let's enforce this the first year Democrats take over the supreme Court.

The only government positions that I know are unlimited are the presidential positions of Putin in Russia, Xi in China and Kim Jong Un in North Korea. Surprise, they are all dictators who have crushed democracy.

​@@JOECURR1488So!!

Other than the Supreme Court!

Why? The US has no redress for corrupt Supremes.

Read Dred Scott......😢

Isn't that what they want?

The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments wrote the Three-Fifths clause out of the Constitution.

From someone who teaches constitutional law, the 3/5 compromise DID NOT speak in any way about the "humanity" of any people. Rather, it settled a numerical dispute between the Northern and Southern states at the Constitutional Convention over how enslaved African-Americans were to be counted in regards to total state populations for seats in the proposed U.S. House of Representatives. Free blacks were to be counted the same way as all whites in the states, and thus there was no issue and they were not in play here. The issue came about because the Southern states wanted their whole slave populations counted with respect to seat apportionment in the House, something that would give them a HUGE advantage due to their large slave populations. By contrast, the North opposed this because of their small slave populations and the fact that enslaved people essentially had no rights and was thus unfair to count this mass of people who could not enjoy the fruits of citizenship. With that, there was a deadlock until Delegate James Wilson of Pennsylvania (who was an abolitionist) proposed a compromise where 3/5 ratio of the slave populations would be counted as opposed to the state's entire slave populations. To break it down in mathematical figures, every five slaves would count as three free people, thus 50 enslaved people would count as 30 free people or 100 enslaved people would count as 60 free people. This compromise was accepted by both sides as it significantly reduced the amount of power southern states would have otherwise had, while still allowing them to count a percentage of their slave populations. If you think they controlled matters too much before the Civil War, imagine it without the 3/5 compromise. All in all, it had nothing to do with anyone's humanity, but exclusively about the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives.

@@historyprofessor1985 Seriously? Are you seriously suggesting that counting slaves AT ALL in the determination of representation was not a grotesque profanation of the principles of representative government? Seriously?

Dems have a nasty habit of calling everything that doesn't go their way "corruption".

Agree, it's not about the number; its the senility

10 PERCENT FOR THE BIG GUY 👦

@@DrJillBidenLOLOLOLIt is NOT about 'senility' - stop being so prejudiced against old people. The unethical, prejudiced behaviour that is the problem is a feature of both old and young. Witness your own prejudice.

@@ykrgfk LOL 😆 Biden doesn't even know where he is most of the time and he can't even take questions 😂 🤣 😅!!!!

The Senate and Congress also!

Would you still want term limits if the court was a liberal majority?

Originally it wasn't thought to be needed - only much older justices were appointed at the end of their career, with maybe 15 or 20 years at most. But republicans started appointing younger and younger people, like Roberts then kavanaugh who could be there 40 years

​@@braddavid902yes, every president should be able to appoint one or two so that the court actually reflects the will of the people as expressed thru elections

@@braddavid902 I sure would

Hahaha that is exactly what I got.

He wouldn't dare criticize the institution that he was once a member, and is currently an alumni, of.

"Promote the general welfare" is a curious phrase. Conservatives would argue the use of the word "promote" rather than "provide". I'd say that "general welfare" includes opportunities and paths for the poor to elevate themselves and for extreme cases it means giving a hand to the destitute that can't elevate themselves. It also includes stuff like public roads, public schools, public parks, public water resources, clean environment, reproductive care, child care, senior care, disability care, etc. The whole point isn't just to promise prosperity but make paths to it.

Promoting the general welfare involves more than a pay check. I don't see a decision allowing unlimited political contributions that can't be traced, or the decision to do away with Roe to be promoting the general welfare. A good bit of the Republican policies don't promote the general welfare. If such things are confusing, I'd say having states officially named Commonwealths demonstrates what the Founders considered the promoting the general welfare. They weren't Communists.@@saeklin

He's an Israeli

His early life section protects him from any criticism

Pssst ....your indoctrination is showing.

@@eyesseeyou803Psst, your indoctrination is showing as well.

@@DrJillBidenLOLOLOL Ah, antisemitism. I wondered when you were going to show up.

Absolutely correct!! Amen

Why ask when he obviously knows he did?

Sadly those guys are afraid to upset “the applecart “. They should be shouting about the hiring of NBC MSNBC of former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniels. She assisted djtRuMp with the COUP…the Insurrection. Yet, these guys REMAIN SILENT!!SHAME on THEM!🇺🇸🗽

Him speaking out unnecessarily could cause problems with the court.

Because they know he believes that! The whole court believes he has, they let that determination stand when they overturned the 14th amendment ballot appeal. And they just reinforced it by allowing New Mexico to bar a candidate from a state ballot for being an insurrectionist

Watching his interviews during this tour, he's been pretty clear that he doesn't want to comment on any cases that are appearing before the court. He doesn't want to appear as a 10th judge.

or Thomas

He sure played cute with important questions from Kristen Welker. Disgusted with his interview. Noncommittal answers. Expected more definite replies from him even if contrary to current SCOTUS.

He certainly must know about the corruption in the current scotus. I was waiting for someone to ask him if the conservative justices that lied in their confirmation hearings about Roe, committed perjury. Also, what about the conservative justices getting bribes from billionaires. He seems to have his head in the clouds or can't even think in his love of scotus bubble.

Yeah, he lives in delusion, thinking its about textualism or originalism vs. pragmatism. These legal theories are justifications for desired political outcomes.

Exactly. 🎯

Good freaking point!!! Well Morning Joe, why didn’t you bring that up?

Agree… no clue why that title is there

Lately they're based on pure Christofascism

Unfortunately you describe where Iive.... I love the coast. Thank oil companies , corruption, corporations: $$$.

Is it the Klan or capitalism?

​@@suehines2581sounds like you should move?

The Klan? There are only around 3000 Klan members left in this country...stop hyperventilating.

Sue Hines I was born and raised in Alabama and at 83 I still live here, moving to Fairhope soon. But I still speak out against Trump Turbeville Katie Britt and all Republicans Republicans every chance I get. Vote blue please

Maybe Ruth Bader Ginsburg should of took the hint from Obama to retire while he was in office? Why the "term limit" talk when things don't go your way?

@@Mr.White10-65 Many prominent legal scholars of both liberal and conservative leanings have been advocating term limits for fifty years. Do a little research into the condition of Justice William O. Douglas during the last several years of his tenure on the Court and you will understand why.

@@markkozlowski3674 I will, but it won't change the point I made.

@@Mr.White10-65 And while you are at it, do a little research into the drive of Speaker of the House Gerald Ford's campaign to impeach Chief Justice Earl Warren. Also look into Tom DeLay's campaign to impeach several liberal federal judges in the 1990's.

@@Mr.White10-65 Also do some research in Speaker of the House Gerald Ford's campaign to impeach Chief Justice Earl Warren.

He voluntarily retired...

@@corgilove2070 Well, yeah, I understand that. I'm simply saying that we as a public would benefit from justices more in the shape of Breyer than the likes of Kavanaugh or Coney Barrett...

This was 100% a political decission. He is not getting younger so he retired while a Democrat is still President to be replaced by a liberal judge (Judge Jackson). Imagine, he wouldn't have done that, dies in 2 years and Trump is President again? Then we would have 7:2 instead of the bad 6:3 ....

Mmmm...I think Joe remained silent because... What can you say to someone like that who should know better. Hoping for wisdom and SC insight, but only getting smiling and outdated platitudes about the current state of affairs in the SC.

He sure likes to hear his own voice.

Pssst......😂😂😂😂😂

Agreed, Dementia Daddy is a dumpster fire. But the Democrats ran with Hillary and the slogan "It's her turn"...LOL

Running Hillary as a candidate and Ruth Bader Ginsburg not taking the hint to retire are REALLY the reasons why you are in what you believe to be a "dumpster fire".

And there's certainly been misconduct among some justices...

@corgilove2070 yes there has. Most recently Russel Brown. It wasn't for judicial impropriety though, just a drunken tirade while on vacation. Imagine if the US had such a low bar for removal. That would be progress.

Na Justices are being Bought With Life Term Hunting Trips, RV Travel, Yacht Trips, World Travel you name it!

​@@TheMadelineTVexactly what I was thinking! We've already got two justices(that we know of) who have been bought! Not sure about Kavanagh. Where did he get that money to pay those huge bills off? Maybe that was his buying off.

No matter what rule or law you can come up with, no matter how good or well intentioned it is, there is someone out there who will corrupt it!

I didn't listen to all of it, because...meh......

I’ve noticed this has been happening more frequently as of late?

He's a judge. By his very nature he feels superior.

yes: he acts as though he is still sitting on the bench and has total control.

I gave up at 4 minutes odd, pointless blather unrelated to reality didn't help. Blatantly lying justices who lied to everyone, people didn't believe them either, but didn't think they'd get a chance to overturn Roe or would be so shameless. Why is he covering for these people, there's nothing they can do to him now.

Harvard Law School professors do tend to get that way.

Biden should dissolve the "Supreme Court" for a while... He probably can't, but somebody needs to ride herd and rein them in.

Was that a conversation?