Posted on 01/22/2026 1:53:10 AM PST by Olog-hai
Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a potential White House hopeful for 2028, said on Wednesday that he wants a mandatory retirement age of 75 for the president and people holding office in other branches of government.
“You’re 75 years old: done,” Emanuel, a Democrat, said at a Center for American Progress event. “And that would be in the legislative branch, it’d be in the executive branch — including the Cabinet — and it’d also be in the Supreme Court, and all the federal courts.”
Emanuel, 66, acknowledged that he would be affected by this proposal if he happens to be elected president in 2028 and seeks re-election, as he would be 73 at the start of a potential second term.
“I know where I am in my age. Of course it would apply to me,” Emanuel told Politico. “You can’t say ‘here’s what I want to do to change Washington, one of the things I want to do’ — but I get an exemption because I bought it beforehand.”
The proposal would make President Donald Trump, 79, ineligible to continue serving and would have prevented former President Joe Biden, now 83, from serving his term in the White House.
In Congress, 17 senators and 45 House members are currently 75 or older and would be impacted by the standard.
Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, 77, and Samuel Alito, 75, would also be barred from continuing to serve on the bench, while Justices Sonia Sotomayor, 71, and John Roberts, 70, are nearing Emanuel’s mandatory retirement age. …
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I am thinking about my Congressman who has been in his office since 1988. We need to change things up a lot. The whole “seniority/spoils” system has to go.
I don’t care if there is a law about it, or an amendment…I think everyone has to have a line that shouldn’t be crossed.
As you wrote, I guess that is an individual thing.
No. In regard to bureaucrats in any supervisory or management or executive position in government, THERE I would like to see a ten year term limit with no ability to simply play musical chairs rotating in and out of different agencies in the same branch of government, federal or state.
Then all regulations should be set with a ten year sunset date, after which a distinct and separate vote by the legislature, regarding that regulation alone, has to vote to extend that sunset date or that regulation ends. Otherwise Congress has to quit handing authority to regulators and actually get bills passed that write exactly what a law is, leaving nothing about it for regulators to decide.
No. In regard to bureaucrats in any supervisory or management or executive position in government, THERE I would like to see a ten year term limit with no ability to simply play musical chairs rotating in and out of different agencies in the same branch of government, federal or state.
Then all regulations should be set with a ten year sunset date, after which a distinct and separate vote by the legislature, regarding that regulation alone, has to vote to extend that sunset date or that regulation ends. Otherwise Congress has to quit handing authority to regulators and actually get bills passed that write exactly what a law is, leaving nothing about it for regulators to decide.
He would have never proposed that when old senile Joe Biden was in office.
“Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a potential White House hopeful for 2028”
Oh please…..
Unconstitutional! There is no congressional oversite to Articles I and II. It’s up to the states or a constitutional convention to amend the constitution.
His brother wants people over 75 dead,so…
Better if the voting age was raised to 21.
75 is too high. 70 at the very most. I’d go as low as 67, 68.
Sounds good to me if we can’t have term limits.
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