Harris embraces Supreme Court term limits that could retire Thomas by 2025

Published September 9, 2024 2:05pm ET



The Harris-Walz campaign at last posted policy positions on its website Monday, proposing a plan that would possibly result in the forced retirement of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas by next year, along with two more Republican-appointed justices before the next decade.

Released a day before Vice President Kamala Harris heads to the debate stage against former President Donald Trump, the policy outline includes so-called commonsense Supreme Court reforms such as “imposing term limits.” It’s unclear how long Harris believes a justice should remain on the high court before he or she would be automatically forced into retirement, and her campaign dedicated more attention and detail on its website toward attacking Trump for the three justices he nominated during his single term in office.

“Donald Trump handpicked members of the United States Supreme Court to take away reproductive freedom — and now he brags about it,” the campaign wrote, according to a section on her website under “Restore And Protect Reproductive Freedoms.”

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