Huckabee: Jefferson Would Have Wished He Pushed Harder for SCOTUS Term Limits

‘Thomas Jefferson wanted there to be term limits for members of the Supreme Court, pushed for it; but the consensus was, gee, nobody will stay that long’

HUCKABEE: “That’s something for discussion. I mean, let’s say if we made it 16 years, even 20 years. I don’t have a specific, arbitrary goal in mind. I just think that people, whether they’re in the executive branch, legislative, or judicial branch, shouldn’t see their appointment to a office as permanent, that it would be that they have no accountability whatsoever. And I also think when a person can be appointed to the Supreme Court and stay there for 40 years, my gosh, they might have outlived, you know, six or seven presidents during that course of time. And I’m just not sure that that’s a healthy thing. By the way, Thomas Jefferson wanted there to be term limits for members of the Supreme Court, pushed for it. But the consensus was, gee, nobody will stay that long. It’s not necessary to put it in the Constitution. I think, if Jefferson were here today, he’d have said, I wish he’d have pushed harder.”

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