No public servant should have unchecked power for their entire professional lives — but that's exactly what Supreme Court justices enjoy with their lifetime appointments. Immune from accountability, our current system allows radical right-wing judges like Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas to impose their ideological agendas on an unwilling nation with no recourse for the public.
Donald Trump won the 2016 election by a razor-thin margin, and thanks to legislative obstruction by Senate Republicans and the untimely death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he has been allowed to create a far-right, conservative supermajority that could conceivably wield power for decades to come. That is beyond unacceptable!
Pass term limits for the Supreme Court!
Justice Samuel Alito is celebrating his 20th year of undercutting our fundamental freedoms and advancing his theocratic beliefs from the bench. If we had 18-year-term limits, as proposed in the Supreme Court Tenure Establishment and Retirement Modernization (TERM) Act, we would've already celebrated his retirement.
Our country and its people cannot afford another three decades of conservative control over the Supreme Court. If this nation ever wants to think about passing progressive legislation that benefits ALL Americans and not having it be immediately overturned by right-wing radicals on the most tenuous of legal arguments, we need term limits ASAP.
Demand term limits for the Supreme Court!
