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The Supreme Court hearings has caught a lot of people’s attention. There is a lot of talk about how the appointment is for life, and there is nothing you can do about the justice once they are in, as they are appointed for life. As nominee Gorsuch said during questioning “Judges aren’t legislators. We serve
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’
by Philip Blumel I have an exciting update on the national term limits movement. The action is happening in Washington and state capitals, as U.S. Term Limits campaigns for term limits on Congress by any means necessary. In D.C., Congressman Ron DeSantis and Senator Ted Cruz have introduced the USTL amendment and are working with
by Paul Jacob Last year, Americans — everywhere from Montgomery County, Maryland, bordering the nation’s capital on the east coast, to sunny Santa Clara, California, on the west coast — voted to impose term limits on their elected officials. There were 40 separate local votes to enact term limits or, conversely, measures put up by
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
U.S. Term Limits (USTL), the leader in the national movement to limit terms for politicians, today called on Congress to pass the Cruz-DeSantis resolution for a congressional term limits amendment. The resolution matches President-Elect Trump’s proposed limits of three terms in the House and two terms in the Senate. “President-Elect Trump, President Obama, Speaker Ryan
People sometimes joke that the ideal term limit is “one in office, one in prison.” Now reality is catching up to the humor. Congressman Chaka Fattah, a 33-year career politician, was just sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. Prosecutors are calling Fattah’s crimes “a white collar crime spree” involving plenty of corruption. Worst of
