The student debt crisis illustrates just how out of touch the Supreme Court is with life in America today.
John,
The student debt crisis illustrates just how out of touch the Supreme Court is with life in America today.
In the early 1970s, when Justice Clarence Thomas and Thomas Alito graduated college, the average student debt loan was about $1,000. Today, it’s over $37,338. Adjusted for inflation, that’s a staggering 317% increase.
So what does SCOTUS do in the midst of the greatest affordability crisis in recent memory? Crushes the hopes of 45 million college graduates by overstepping Congress and rejecting President Biden’s plan to forgive their student debt.
The American people are paying a huge cost for having lifetime appointments on the nation’s highest court. To get SCOTUS back on track, I introducedthe Supreme Court Term Limits and Regular Appointments Act, which would create an 18-year term limit for justices.
Our Founders established the Supreme Court to be an impartial, nonpartisan branch of the federal government. Yet today’s Court is anything but: it’s deeply politicized and dangerously incompatible with America’s highest ideals. That’s why it’s imperative that we set term limits for Supreme Court justices—18 years and you’re out!
