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Surprise, surprise. A brand new report says states with term-limited legislatures are outperforming their career politician counterparts. According to George Mason University’s “Ranking the States by Fiscal Condition 2017” report, 8 of the 15 fiscally strongest states have legislative term limits. When one considers that only 15 out of 50 states have legislative term limits,
This week, the nation watched with anticipation as special elections for Congress took place in South Carolina and Georgia. What the mainstream media didn’t report, however, is that both winning candidates are term limits advocates who’ve signed the U.S. Term Limits Pledge! The big winners – Ralph Norman and Karen Handel – have committed to
A sneaky politician in Florida is cheating term limits by running for re-election despite having reached his eight-year limit. James Grant (R-Tampa) was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2010 and is term-limited in 2018. He has not only filed to run for a fifth consecutive term in 2018, but Grant says
Back in 2012, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch pledged that, if elected, his current six-year term would be his last. On Election Day 2018, Hatch will be 84 years old — and have spent more than half his life in Washington. Still, Utah’s senior senator just announced he intends to run for re-election for an eighth
This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee grilled Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. Talk about a silly rite. Senators repeatedly fired questions about specific legal views that no High Court nominee ever answers. Why not? Because to answer would be to pre-judge possible future cases. That didn’t prevent displays of
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who has been in the U.S. Senate for the last 40 years, announced last week that he will seek an eighth consecutive term in 2018. When Hatch won election to the Senate in 1976, he made term limits a key piece of his campaign against a three-term incumbent. “Senator, you have
Last week, the other shoe dropped. When last we touched upon Arkansas state legislator Micah Neal, he had pled guilty to steering hundreds of thousands of state tax dollars to a small private college in exchange for big, fat bribes. He also implicated the state’s No. 1 term limits opponent, former State Senator Jon Woods,
There is a special election in South Carolina’s fifth Congressional District. Mullikin and Connelly are running to replace ex-Rep. Mick Mulvaney, a major supporter of term limits who also signed the USTL pledge – along with many others in South Carolina’s congressional delegation. Mr. Mulvaney is leaving his position in Congress as he is President’
In 2014, Arkansas state legislators used misleading ballot language to trick Arkansas voters into gutting the state’s term limits law. Now the same politicians behind that scheme — which called dumping term limits “ethics reform” — have been busted for bribery. Arkansas State Representative Micah Neal pled guilty last week to taking $38,000 in bribes from two non-profit
By: Professor Rob Natelson. Professor Natelson is the Independence Institute’s Senior Fellow in Constitutional Jurisprudence and heads the Institute’s Article V Information Center. Advocates for term limits want to amend the Constitution to add them. Their most common argument is that restricting how long an elected official may serve will curb special interest influence and
