[hanamizu]

There needs to be an age limit of 80 on the supreme court

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Makes a lot of sense, but it would take a Constitutional Amendment.

[hanamizu]

Actually FDR tried to do an end-around by proposing that he be granted the power to appoint a Justice for every Justice over a certain age—you know, to lighten the older Justices’ workload. Even the Dems wouldn’t buy his court-packing scheme.