Senate Democrats introduced legislation on Thursday to place term limits on Supreme Court justices, reigniting debate around the issue championed by Democrats in the House and the Senate.
Would the Supreme Court be able to strike such a law down if they themselves challenged it? They obviously couldn’t be impartial regarding a case like this, so who would rule on something like this?
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
Would the Supreme Court be able to strike such a law down if they themselves challenged it? They obviously couldn’t be impartial regarding a case like this, so who would rule on something like this?
The citizens of the US voting on it would be nice
You mean a referendum? The United States disallow it because “the country is a republic”.
No, they would not.