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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
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 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
Representative Ron DeSantis and Senator Ted Cruz, two signers of the U.S. Term Limits pledge, committed this week to “drain the swamp” with term limits bills in both chambers of Congress. In an Op-Ed they co-authored in the Washington Post, DeSantis and Cruz wrote that “passing term limits will demonstrate that Congress has actually heard
“I don’t think people want a new direction,” Nancy Pelosi told CBS’s Face the Nation this week. Yes, she really said that. Pelosi has been in Congress for three decades. This year alone, she has seen a historic presidential race, a challenge to her leadership by younger Democrats and a 10 percent approval rating for
by Scott Tillman Michigan State Representative Tom Barrett (R-Potterville) has filed legislation in the State House for a convention to put term limits on Congress. Barrett’s resolution, HJR TT, would allow Michigan to cooperate with 33 other state legislatures to launch a convention, which can then propose a constitutional amendment for term limits. It will be
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
By: Nick Tomboulides An email posted by Wikileaks last week revealed that five-term Arizona Sen. John McCain dodged questions on term limits during his final campaign for president. When asked if term limits were an effective resolution to an ineffective Congress, McCain defended career politicians as “irreplaceable” and said the political process would fix itself.
