In New Hampshire Senate debate, Hassan suggests term limits for justices but not for Congress

New Hampshire Republican Senate nominee Don Bolduc said on Thursday that Sen. Maggie Hassan, the Democratic incumbent, and her party are placing new environmental regulations American businesses while not holding the world's biggest polluters accountable.

Bolduc named Russia, China and Iran as the top polluters in the world.

"Russia is not held accountable. She's holding American businesses accountable," he said.

In response, Hassan said Bolduc is extreme and "alighted with big corporate interests."

On border security, Hassan said some areas of the U.S.-Mexico border need physical barriers to close existing gaps. She called for the hiring of more U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents.

Bolduc said Hassan voted against everything former President Trump wanted to do on border security.

He said the $80 billion for up to 87,000 new IRS agents should be shifted toward CBP for more border patrol agents. 

Bolduc argued that the Biden administration allowing the release of thousands of migrants into the U.S. while their asylum cases move their way through the court system is encouraging more migrants to make the dangerous trip to the border.

On Supreme Court reform, Hassan said Congress should "put a limit on years of service on the Supreme Court justices while they could still then serve in other federal and other federal benches so that we could have a predictable rotation of justices."

Hassan said the voters would have to decide if there should be term limits for members of Congress at the ballot box, rather than a law.

"Voters can decide whether we are term limited and I think it's really important for voters to have the choice to decide that they like what somebody has been doing and they want them to continue in service. They can also obviously vote us out of office," she said.

Bolduc supports term limits for members of Congress but not Supreme Court justices. He also said he opposes expanding the number of justices on the Supreme Court.