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Keith E. Whittington

MYSTERIOUS: Justice sotomayor on supreme court term limits - You Need To See This

Rick Pildes at Election Law Blog calls attention to a post by Fix the Court that includes audio and some excerpts from an interview Justice Sotomayor did at the University of Zurich last year. Fix the Court -- a leading advocate of radical Court "reform" -- seems to want to spin Sotomayor's comments as good news, but Pildes points out that Sotomayor seems clearly skeptical of how judicial term limits might be implemented.

In particular, she seems to think that term limits could not be applied to the current justices, which she correctly points out would mean that the reformers would not actually get what they most care about which is altering the current composition of the Court.

Her remarks include this provocative claim:

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