⁍ Bill would allow every president to nominate two justices per four-year term.

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⁍ Justices serve increasingly long tenures, on average now more than 25 years.

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⁍ Bill seeks to avoid constitutional concerns by exempting current justices from the 18-year rule.

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– As President Trump names his third Supreme Court pick in the wake of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, Democrats in the House are introducing a bill that would limit justices’ lifetime appointments to 18 years, Reuters reports. “It would save the country a lot of agony and help lower the temperature over fights for the court that go to the fault lines of cultural issues and is one of the primary things tearing at our social fabric,” says California Rep. Ro Khanna, who will introduce the Supreme Court Term Limits and Regular Appointments Act on Tuesday. The bill would allow every president to nominate two justices per four-year term. Current justices would be exempt from the 18-year term limit. “That’s perfectly consistent with their judicial independence and having a lifetime salary and a lifetime appointment,” Khanna says. The bill would also allow presidents to nominate up to two justices per term.