Frustration with America’s political system has led to some renewed interest in setting term limits for lawmakers, though it’s an idea broadly opposed by experts.
Voters have long been supportive of hard caps on how long someone can be in office, but recent infighting among Republicans over who should be speaker of the U.S. House and health issues among aging members of Congress have reignited calls for federal term limits. (Ethics scandals at the U.S. Supreme Court have led to separate calls for judicial term limits.)
A Pew Research Center survey this summer found a whopping 87% of Americans say they support congressional term limits.
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