Should US Supreme Court Terms Be Limited?

Ever considered whether members of the US Supreme Court should be subject to term limits?  A group of legal scholars has considered the issue and, in a recent letter, they urge that life tenure be abolished.  The brief letter does not suggest any particular number of years and is open to consideration of other solutions.

“An essential portion of the letter reads:  We choose not to endorse any particular plan here, so long as terms are sufficiently long to maintain judicial independence. But we believe that continuing to concentrate power in the hands of a few individuals, who sit for many decades with almost no oversight and little incentive to compromise, is no longer good public policy, if it ever was. A court seen by most Americans as a political actor, whose very legitimacy is routinely questioned, and whose
appointment process has devolved into farce, is in need of fixing.”

The hope that term limits or other “fixes” will remove the court from partisan politics.