re: More than 50 advocacy groups join push for bill limiting Supreme Court terms

Congress first. The truth is that Congress and SCOTUS both suck. Congress is increasingly dominated by long tenures and corruption and the courts are over populated by Big Gov stooges.

Longest SCOTUS justice was about 37 years.

Chuck Schumer went to Harvard (shocker) and immediately went into politics. Been in politics for about 50 years now, continuously. Not a single day in the real world. In Congress for about 45 years, continuously.
Lindsey Graham has been in DC for about 30yrs and was a state politician before that.
McConnell has been in the Senate since 1985 (39yrs).
Career politicians and career judges. Both are bad for the nation.


Average time for SCOTUS justices is about 17yrs. We have two people right now in the House with 42yrs (at start of this Congress) in Congress. Harold Rogers and Christopher Smith. Chuck Grassley has been in the Senate for 42yrs as of convening the current Congress.

About 1/4 of the House has been there longer than 12yrs. In the Senate it's about 43%.

SCOTUS justices:
19yrs
32yrs
18yrs
15yrs
13yrs
5yrs
4yrs
3yrs
2yrs
Avg 12.33
Hank Johnson, who thinks Guam will tip over, was a lawyer and a judge (damning for the legal profession), and has been in Congress longer than the avg SCOTUS justice on the current court, and longer than 6 of the justices, and longer than the junior 4 combined, yet he wants to talk about term limits for them but not himself.

Avg length of service in the Senate is about 12yrs now.

As of 2022 the longest active time in Congress:

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) — 47 years*
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) — 45 years*
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) — 41 years*
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) — 41 years*
Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY-05) — 41 years
Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ-04) — 41 years
Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD-05) — 40 years
* = both House and Senate time