Sixty-seven percent of respondents said they support justices serving a specific number of years on the court, per a new poll from the Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
A majority of Democrats and Republicans favor term limits, with 82% of Democrats and 57% of Republicans voicing support for the bill. Respondents also had similar opinions about a requirement for justices to quit at a specific age.
Supreme Court justices serve as long as they wish, with many operating on the court for decades. Justice Clarence Thomas is currently the court's oldest member, at 74 years old, followed by Justice Samuel Alito, 72.
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Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia, the two most recent justices to die, were both still on the bench at the time of their deaths.
Meanwhile, there is a partisan split between those who passed the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe, with 63% of Republicans approving and 80% of Democrats opposing. Overall, 53% of respondents disapproved of the court's decision, while 30% approved and 16% did not say.
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Public trust in the court has stayed low in recent months, with 43% of respondents saying they have "hardly any" confidence in the court, which is up 27% from three months prior.
The poll was conducted with 1,085 adults from July 14-17 using NORC's probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is meant to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
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The court, which is now taking a summer break, will return to hearing cases in October with diminished confidence among Americans. Now 43% say they have hardly any confidence in the court, up from 27% three months ago.
Inez Parker of Currie, North Carolina, said she’s among those who strongly favor limits on justices’ service. “I think some of those people have been up there too long. They don’t have new ideas. When you get a certain age and everything you get set in your ways just like I’m set in my ways,” said the 84-year-old Democrat.
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Parker said retired justices can “work in their garden, sit on the porch and fan flies or whatever they want to do.”
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The Constitution gives federal judges, including Supreme Court justices,life tenure, but there have been recent calls for change. A commission tasked by President Joe Biden with weighing potential changes to the Supreme Court studied term limits, among other issues. The commission finalized its work last year, and its members were eventually split over whether they believed Congress has the power to pass a law creating the equivalent of term limits.
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