#13 TERM LIMITS vs JUDGES

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One of the latest political furors is about the judiciary overreaching
and legislating from the bench. I believe that my pet concern about
Congressional Term Limits (www.tenurecorrupts.com) may provide
a solution to fix the runaway judiciary.

One of the problems with our wonderful American representative
republic/democracy is that in many parts of the government we
are suffering from a disease brought on by age and ‘tenure’. You
could call it ‘hardening of the arteries’.

When individuals in government (or any other pursuit!) occupy one
job or office for too long, they naturally become less effective at
that job. They begin to lose the energy, enthusiasm, and imagination
required to perform that job well. But they do learn how to best hold
on to the job, whether they are doing well or not, by ‘gaming’ the system.

And there is a significant tendency for such ‘used up’ politicians to
maintain the status quo, not only in their own situation, but in similar
situations thruout the government. Thus, even though the Judiciary
appears to be stealing Congressional responsibilities, the pols consider
this theft to be a way of shedding political ‘blame’ by avoiding tough
legislative choices and therefore favorable to their reelection chances.

In other words, "Let the judges do it!"

Term Limits would tend to bring in new congresspeople who would
have a fresh point-of-view, and be aware that the Judiciary was
behaving unconstitutionally, and be far more apt to curb the
runaway Judiciary by legislation, which the Constitution provides for.

Nelson Lee Walker

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