Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer signaled his support for age and term limits for Supreme Court justices.
In an interview with NBC News’s Meet the Press, Breyer was asked if he supported term or age limits for justices amid wider scrutiny of age in the Supreme Court and politics generally. He answered by saying he didn’t have a problem with it, but that terms should be long to preserve the integrity of the court.
“I’ve said, and I think it’s true, I don’t think that’s harmful,” he said, regarding term or age limits. “If you had long terms, for example, they’d have to be long. Why long? Because I don’t think you want someone who’s appointed to the Supreme Court to be thinking about his next job. And so, a 20-year term? I don’t know,
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