In light of the two major reforms to the U.S. Supreme Court that U.S. President Joe Biden proposed last week—imposing term limits and a code of ethics on the court’s nine justices—it’s worth taking a look at how top court judges in other democratic countries—particularly America’s closest neighbor, Canada—fare in these areas.
Instead of the lifetime appointments that currently exist, Biden endorsed structural changes to the nation’s top court that include 18-year term limits and a binding code of conduct, saying the changes would help end the “extremism” that is “undermining the public confidence in the court’s decisions.” His SCOTUS proposals, along with a third to amend the Constitution to do away with the presidential immunity the court recently created, have been met with both kudos and derision.
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