Representative Democratic Model- Selectable Offices Part Thirty-Three Term Limits For Federal Judges (Session Seven)

Representative Democratic Model- Selectable Offices Part Thirty-Three
Term Limits For Federal Judges (Session Seven)

When the US Constitution was written, the Founding Fathers had no idea that the federal government and its three branches would become the sovereign government authority. They did not know that it would also grow in such large scope and magnitude.  

That is why the Founding Fathers allowed lifetime tenure for all federal judges, supreme and inferior. They anticipated that the federal government would gave a very limited role in the affairs of the people. It was expected that the each and every state government would play the pre-eminent role instead.

Since that is not the case, lifetime tenure for judges, especially at the federal level, needs to be eliminated. The federal trial court judge needs to serve an eight year term. At the end of the first term, they need to be subject to reconfirmation by the U.S. Senate. They need to be restricted to two terms only. 

In reference to the federal appellate and supreme court justices, they need to be restricted to one term of ten years and twelve years respectively. 

Term Limits are always needed on those who either apply or enforce the law. Lifetime positions, especially in an institution that gained unprecedented authority, need to be curbed. Term limits are just that way in doing that. 

Term Limits:Term Limits are always needed on those who either apply or enforce the law. Also, as governance was transformed from what the Founding Fathers had envisioned, term limits on the judiciary should have been enacted 150 years ago. 

Since federal government became the supreme government authority, lack of term limits on the judiciary will only lead to judicial tyranny and overreach.