A fixed schedule for appointments would reduce political manipulation and make the Court more representative.

Australians voted decades ago to require High Court judges to retire at age 70.

Term limits are good policy and can be implemented by statute, a former federal appeals court judge explains.

Far from calling balls and strikes, the Roberts Court’s record shows a pattern of altering fundamental rules for our system of elections.

As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments in two cases challenging the removal of independent agency heads, several historians and legal scholars have filed friend-of-the-court briefs focused on history to support the removed officials.

Congress, not the Supreme Court, should make the rules for political party fundraising.

An assessment of nine polls shows a general public demand for changes to the appointment process and justices’ tenure.

The 5–4 decision started a long slide in public approval for the court, accentuated by a widening partisan gap.

The justices are supposed to check the president, but who will check the justices?

Which cases the justices choose to hear has a major impact on Americans’ lives.

The Court is ruling on challenges to government actions on its emergency docket, often without explaining its decisions or providing guidance to lower courts.

Justices timing their exits to happen under a particular president undermines trust in judicial impartiality.

He’s been railing against it since the early 1980s.

Americans have tinkered with the high court since the founding.