Overtime - Episode #469: SCOTUS Term Limits, Wave of Women, Wildfires

Real Time with Bill Maher

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4.2 • 15.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Bill and his guests – Preet Bharara, Adam Conover, Jennifer Granholm, Charlie Sykes, and Jonathan Swan answer viewer questions after the show. (Originally aired 08/17/18)

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0:00.0	Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late night series Real Time with Bill Maugh.
0:07.0	Okay, here we are back on the internet.
0:13.4	We were just making fun of preach.
0:14.9	Should there be 18 year term limits for the Supreme Court?
0:18.4	Yes, some people have mentioned that.
0:20.4	I would say yes because Trump got two picks in a year and a half.
0:26.0	Jimmy Carter never got one.
0:27.4	Got zero.
0:28.4	It's, it's, it's, it's, it's.
0:29.7	Nixon got four, Reagan got four.
0:31.9	Yes.
0:33.1	Look, so I think, I think there's a reasonable case to be made for it.
0:36.4	I think you want to have judicial independence, which the founders thought could be accomplished
0:41.0	through having life tenure.
0:43.2	But I think they also probably thought that over time the people in the Supreme Court
0:47.3	would sort of match, again, over a long period of time the ideological proclivities of
0:53.1	the party that was appointing them.
0:55.2	But if you look at a, a staff of people don't focus on, if you go back to 1968, 50, in
1:00.5	the last 50, 50 years, and if you count the new nominee, there will have been 18 people
1:05.7	appointed to the Supreme Court.
1:06.7	Do you know how many of them were appointed by Republican presidents?
1:10.1	Fourteen of the 18.
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