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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
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
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
