How many terms are the judges allowed per the Independent Counsel Act?
2-year terms
Title: Morrison v. Olson
Passage: Morrison v. Olson, 487 U.S. 654 (1988) , is a United States federal court case in which the Supreme Court of the United States decided that the Independent Counsel Act was constitutional.
Title: Special Division
Passage: The Special Division is a division of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  28 U.S.C. § 49 (1982 ed., Supp.  V) (Title VI of the Ethics in Government Act).  It consists of three circuit court judges or justices appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States.  One of the judges must be a judge of the DC Circuit, and no two of the judges may be named to the Special Division from a particular court.  The judges are appointed for 2-year terms, with any vacancy being filled only for the remainder of the 2-year period.  Its constitutionality was upheld in Morrison v. Olson.
Title: Robert Ray (prosecutor)
Passage: Robert William Ray (born April 4, 1960) is an American lawyer practicing in the New York office of the Dallas-based law firm of Thompson & Knight, LLP.  As the successor to Ken Starr as the head of the Office of the Independent Counsel (1999 to 2002) he investigated and issued the final reports on the Whitewater scandal, the White House travel office controversy, and the White House FBI files controversy.  Before that he was Deputy Independent Counsel investigating former Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy and before that Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Morrison v. Olson Special Division