Here’s a blurb from Anderson Cooper’s 360:

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she hopes to stay on until at least the age of 90. As for retiring or term limits, Ginsburg said there’s no chance.

It really should not surprise me to see an abundance of arrogance on the Supreme Court by liberal-leaning justices nominated by Democratic presidents.  To be fair, I have seen it on the right also.

Should there be term limits?  Absolutely.  Regardless of your take on Roe v. Wade, or whether you think it is settled law, there is a shelf life for members who occupy a seat on the highest court in the land.  And, as far as Roe v. Wade, do you really want the right to privacy relitigated every twenty or so years?  Or, does one’s right to privacy mean the same as it did in the 1970s in today’s age of social media and public access to information?

Or, at least there should be.  Why?  You don’t have to go back that far in history to research that the life expectancy of a Justice was a little less than it is now.  Technology and medicine have come a long way.  Albeit, a good thing, not all people are created equal at least in terms of health.  I’d argue that Reagan had the beginnings of Alzheimer’s before he left office.  And, although I’m not singling out any particular justice I do know a little bit about dementia. Both my dad and my mom had dementia and my grandmother suffered and died from Alzheimer’s. Sadly people who have these types of illnesses are the last to know. Minimalizing and bargaining away the severity of the illness as part of the disease process. It’s also part of Elizabeth Kubler Ross’ stages of death.

Term limits would be instrumental in sustaining a court and at the same time making it less politicized.  It would also ensure the integrity of the renderings of the court. A generational turnover of justices would in many ways ensure that the pendulum of justice did not swing so far in one direction or another.

Source: Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggests she has at least five more years on the Supreme Court – CNNPolitics