Term limits were the people's own check on entrenched power, written into the constitution by direct vote in 2000 precisely so that no lawmaker could settle in for a career. This amendment does not abolish that check, but it does relax it by half a term. The honest case for the change is that eight years is barely enough time to learn a complex job and that experience is handed instead to lobbyists and permanent staff. The honest case against is that the longer a man holds a seat, the safer the incumbency and the harder the unseating, and that the voters already weighed this and chose eight years. Either way, the deciding question belongs to the citizen who set the limit in the first place: does Nebraska gain more in seasoned legislators than it risks in entrenched ones. Weigh it on accountability, not on any one senator.
"When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn."
— Proverbs 29:2 (KJV)