DeSantis supports term limits — but for members of Congress, not Supreme Court justices

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says that while he doesn’t think much about the Biden-Harris administration’s proposal to reform the U.S. Supreme Court by imposing term limits of 18 years, he’d gladly accept that if Congress would also mandate term limits for itself.

“If they’re willing to support term limits for members of Congress, that would be a trade that I would make,” he told reporters during a news conference in Tampa on Monday.

The Phoenix followed up by asking the governor whether he could support Congress imposing a mandatory age requirement for Supreme Court justices, as is the law in Florida. A 2018 constitutional amendment approved by voters in Florida in 2018 now requires state justices to retire on their 75th birthday. Before then, they were required to retire by the time their 70th birthday arrived.

“If you’re going to do it, do it for everybody in office,” he said. “If you want to do it to 75, just don’t apply it to justices, apply it to Congress. Apply it to the executive. If you’re going to do it, that would be one thing.”