I just sent this to my congressman

[momta]

I live in a very blue area, and my congressman (Joe Neguse) is excellent. AND, he's on the judiciary committee.

Feel free to take, edit, spread it around...or not. But this shit with the court has to stop.

First of all, thank you for everything you do. I continue to be a strong supporter of yours.

I simply don't understand why we are forced to live (and die) by the rules made up by a subset of corrupt, illegitimate, and oblivious "Justices" on the Supreme Court. They continue to bring their own politics, religion, and personal preferences into what should be interpretations of the Constitution.

I listened to an interview with your colleague, Jamie Raskin, and he has some great ideas for reform of the court, including the following:

1. One justice for every circuit
2. Eighteen-year terms
3. An independent ethics board

...among others. These seem pretty reasonable to me.

By the way, I'm not an attorney, just a mom who doesn't want her children to live under this kind of corruption.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Good for you, my dear momta!

I think the good legislators recognize their good constituents and their good ideas. Yours are excellent, even if you didn't think of them first.

I hope he listens.

[erronis]

2. Short and to the point. Just right.

Kudos!

[leftieNanner]

3. Excellent.

But Republicans would never let such legislation see the light of day.

We have to keep pushing though.

[dchill]

4. I join your brief!

[Warpy]

5. Ca;n't think of much to add or delete

and the USSC is going to enjoy that exceedingly low approval raing until and unless at least one of your recommendations is adopted. Unfortunately, the term limit will require a constitutional amendment. The other two have a chance of making it through a non wingnut Congress.

[Abigail_Adams]

18. I would add this.

Nominees must be screened for membership in the anti-American Federalist Society.

[Warpy]

19. First, declare it a terrorist organization

and indict Leonard Leo uner the RICP Act.

[mountain grammy]

6. Joe Neguse is my Congressman also and

he's a gem! I also wrote to him about this nonsense on the Court.

[momta]

12. Thank you!

I know he already knows, but I think it helps for him to hear it from us. I want him to know that it's important to us.

[Attilatheblond]

30. " I want him to know that it's important to us." We must let our reps know what we want, if they ignore us, fire 'em!

Communicate! In LTTE, in blog comments and other social media, and ESPECIALLY in direct messages to our elected officials.

[onenote]

7. I take it we only want to expand the court if it occurs while a Democrat is President

It’s not really something we want for any other reason and we’d oppose expanding the court if it meant a Republican president could be filling the new seats.

[NotASurfer]

8. Keeps it simple

I might suggest limiting a President to two appointments in any 4 year term to make it harder for any administration to steer violently to the right again, but those are reasonable

[momta]

13. One of Raskin's other suggestions was something like this.

I couldn't remember the particulars, so I didn't include it, but it sounded reasonable.

[PatrickforB]

9. Wonderful! Thank you for sharing this.

My Rep was Ken Buck and next year (horrors!) may be Lauren Boebert. I will work to elect her Democratic challenger, of course, but the spirit of the Klan is alive and well in some parts of eastern Colorado.

Regardless of who wins, though, I write at least one letter a month to my Rep and call often about issues I care about.

[momta]

14. Yeah, whoever thought Ken Buck would be the voice of reason...

in ANY political party? I think Ike McCorkle has a shot--military background and all--assuming he gets the nomination next month. I don't know any of the other candidates.

[anciano]

10. The three ideas from Rep Raskin

that you listed sound very reasonable to me as well. They would be a great start for meaningful reform.
👍

[LiberalFighter]

11. 1,and 3 would not require a constitutional amendment.

The ethics board would need to be constructed so Federalist Society members don't control it. It would also need to have the power to punish.

[soldierant]

15. I'm with you on 1 and 3

amd they also need a Code of Ethics with teeth.

Term limits, I don't agree., unless they were able to be reappointed (and reconfirmed.). I have seen too many Republicans using term limits to destroy good Democrats.

[vapor2]

16. MORE people/voters need to call out the corruptness

Clarence Thomas has yet to recuse from any Jan 6 vote and I am pretty sure Alito won't either. Their egos are too huge.

[crickets]

17. Go, you! K&R

[calimary]

20. Boy, THAT'S a good one!

I’m gonna write an ask about it - for NEXT weekend’s script.

My Indivisible group issues a “Call to Action” email every week to all our members and friends. The one for this coming week is already being edited. Publishing will be the next step - for next Tuesday.

But there’s no reason not to work ahead while the idea’s fresh. And there’s plenty of time for updating.

[momta]

21. Why, thank you, calimary.

As I said, feel free to lift, edit, use it as you will. The more voices, the better.

[Emile]

22. Powerful and to the point.

[COL Mustard]

23. I like the idea of expanding the Court

But changing the terms would unfortunately require a Constitutional amendment, and that’s not likely to happen in this environment.

[mopinko]

24. ya know, i was leery of the term limits. thinkin-

i mean, it wd b good. but jeez, a scotus nom fight every term? sheeesh i dont want that.
but it just occurred to me. they’d just b routine. none of this high stakes battle shit. none of the accumulation of cronies. none of the predictable relationships that must b out there w the assholes in the 5th and other circuits who serve up these completely bogus cases.
and 18 yrs sounds right. tho a multiple of 4 wd b smart. 20 or even 24. i do put a high value on institutional knowledge.

[James48]

25. No.

Not 18 year terms.

No more than a 10 year term, please. They don’t need to be there forever.

[JustAnotherGen]

26. I'm going to pull a Melania

Copy and paste, remove the last line - and send to Tom Kean Jr. It goes nowhere - but I missed emailing him two weeks in a row.

[momta]

31. Except Melania didn't have (or care to have) permission.

As the original author you have my full permission to do with it as you please. I'm just delighted that people want to use it

[CrispyQ]

27. Great letter!

Joe's my rep, too! I'll use your letter as inspiration & send something this week!

[SWBTATTReg]

28. I agree w/ a lot of your points. 'Mom' points make your points just as valid as anyone else's, if anything, even

more, since your children (and all of ours, and our extended families are involved).

We need teeth into enacting and moving on the Supreme Court...they have shown to all of us just how corrupt, and unafraid of the rest of us they are, so their heads are in the clouds and they think they are above the law, if anything, making law as they see fit. Not good, since it's our legitimately elected officials in Congress that make the laws, and the president signs them into law. This is no longer true. This Supreme Court (as they like to still call themselves that) has ignored long standing rulings to ride roughshod over long-established law (Roe). They obviously feel like doing anything they want to. This isn't the original purpose of the US Supreme court, never was.

And I don't feel like entrusting the enforcement of anything anymore to the Congress, as it's shown, rather well, how partisan it can be, and these folks won't change their stripes at all, haven't shown any remorse or the like, just the raw filthy grabbing of power.

An extreme approach would be to disband the entire Court, and appoint new Supremes, as the existing members have shown (most of the members, not all) extreme partisanship and bias. Hence, they should NOT ever be allowed near a courtroom anymore. Of course, Term Limits are needed as these existing Justices (w/ exception of two of them) have abused their positions big-time.

I like the idea of having a Justice appointed per every circuit court in the Country. Also, I'd like to have voters vote on perhaps 3, maybe more Justices (and no one else, that the voters pick and no one else) in addition, e.g., do the number of Justices per circuit court, thus, 13 + 3. And why not? Look at how biased Cannon is regarding an open and shut Thief of Secret Documents case in FL. The larger number of Justices also ensure that crazy antics such as overturning long-established law won't be so easily overturned, like some of the existing members of the US Supreme Court promised to Congress when they were sitting for confirmation. They lied, so no mercy. Charge them for lying to Congress and make them pay the full price for lying to Congress and the American people.

There are 13 circuit courts in the United States. These circuit courts are organized from the 94 U.S. judicial districts. The Thirteenth Circuit is the Federal Judicial Circuit, which has nationwide jurisdiction over certain appeals based on subject matter. In addition to the circuit courts, there is one Supreme Court throughout the country.

There's going to be all kinds of debate but the main point standing still is that the Courts are tainted significantly. Thus, are damaged by the whinny support of just one person, djt, which should never happen. No interference ever by our US Supreme Court should be tolerated by the Election Process in this Country. We all went through it before. Never again. I am kind of waiting for a shoe to drop, that this fake Supreme Court with its errant members would venture to declare Pres. Biden an illegal president...I know that this is extreme, but what other victories have the American people won in the past will still stand? The right to vote? The vote for all to live free and wholesome lives regardless of sexual preference or religious belief, etc., the list goes on.

[ariadne0614]

29. It helps to know others are getting in touch with Congress.

Yesterday I emailed Dick Durbin (head of the Senate Judiciary Committee) about Alito and Thomas. I also contacted MSNBC to express my appreciation for their coverage, and ask that they not let the issue fall by the wayside.

My own efforts don’t feel as pointless when I see what others are doing. Thanks for posting!

[DiverDave]

32. Well said

And I agree 100%.
Thank you.