Friend,
Over the past several years, the U.S. Supreme Court has become wildly imbalanced with severe and lasting consequences for our rights and freedoms. As the Court has leaned more and more rightward, conservative activists have relitigated rights once thought to be “settled law.”
When justices serve for decades without term limits, they can become entrenched in their ideologies and rigid in their thinking. This results in decisions that not only undermine progress but also threaten the very fabric of our democracy.
Such decisions from our nation’s highest court have led to a deep and bipartisan distrust of the institution. Now, calls to reform it have reached a fever pitch, with an overwhelming majority of Americans supporting term limits and other reforms. [1]
Term limits would help restore balance and accountability to the highest court in the land, ensuring that no single ideology can dominate its decisions for decades on end. Here are just a few of the reforms the TERM Act would create:
- Establish terms of 18 years for Supreme Court Justices with staggered departures from the Court, after which justices who retain the office will assume senior status.
- Establish regular nominations of Supreme Court justices in the first and third years following a presidential election as the sole means of Supreme Court appointments, ensuring that no president can ever nominate more than two justices during their term.
- Require a randomly-selected senior status Supreme Court justice to fill in on the Court if the number of justices in regular active service falls below nine.
- And more.
Join us in calling on Congress to pass these important reforms by supporting the TERM Act. >>
Your signature on this petition is a powerful statement of your commitment to a fair and impartial judiciary, one that upholds the principles of equality and justice for all. Together, we can send a clear message to Congress that the American people demand action to safeguard our democracy from the corrosive influence of partisan politics.
Thanks for all that you do.
Zach VanHouten
People For the American Way
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Source:
[1] "AP-NORC poll: 2 in 3 in US favor term limits for justices" Associated Press, 7/25/22
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