(01-21-2019 05:23 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  I think the same thing would happen to the Supreme Court. Part of the aura of the Supreme Court is that there aren't any ex-Supreme Court justices running for office or arguing political cases before the court. We risk losing that if we impose term limits.

Personally I think that cases like Taft becoming Chief Justice, Andrew Johnson briefly getting into the Senate before dying shortly into his term, and John Quincy Adams spending years in the House after their presidencies are really interesting. A little different however, and a much different time in DC.

Generally, I think your point is generally correct. We've seen scores of ex-congressmen making livings as lobbyists and such after getting out. And if we thought that SCOTUS politics were heavily involved in 2016, just wait until a justice or two passes around the same time a term expires, eighteen years later you'd basically have an election cycle dominated by two or three seats you know for certain will be opening. Plus Senate elections two or four years before that as well.