“It’s clear that, even as we fight to ensure MAGA influences do not further damage our courts during the immediate crisis facing our democracy, major reforms are urgently needed: strong ethics rules, term limits, restructuring of the Supreme Court and lower courts, and curbing abuses like judge-shopping and unconstitutional power grabs.”

Reforming the Courts - Demand Justice

“This Chapter argues that looking to the substance of the Court’s decisions brings a more complete case for Court reform into view. The complete argument for Court reform has two parts: First, the Court’s recent decisions have been substantively wrong, so wrong that some intervention is needed to undo them and to avert similar decisions in the future. Second, the existing formal arguments for Court reform identify a set of potential changes, consistent with widely held political values, that would answer that need. Ethical reforms target the rules governing Justices, including more rigorous disclosure obligations for Justices, external oversight of Justices’ finances, and more stringent recusal rules.56 One popular idea is to implement staggered eighteen-year terms for Justices, which would regulate the number of Supreme Court Justices that each President is able to appoint.45”

Confusion and Clarity in the Case for Supreme Court Reform