Tell Congress to pass Supreme Court term limits!

It’s ludicrous to think that certain unelected officials should have power for their entire lives — but that’s exactly what Supreme Court justices enjoy with their lifetime appointments. Immune from accountability or backlash from the public, our current system allows radical right-wing judges like Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas to impose their ideological agendas on an unwilling nation with no recourse for the public.

Donald Trump won the 2016 election on a razor-thin margin, and thanks to legislative obstruction by Republicans and the untimely death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Trump has been allowed to stack the court with right-wing extremists that could hold power until at least 2065. That is beyond unacceptable!

Pass term limits for the Supreme Court!

The right-wing members of the Supreme Court are rife with corruption and very clearly see their complete immunity from any consequence as a license to legislate from the bench, stripping away long-held rights from millions of people at the drop of a hat while offering up the most laughably tenuous justifications that inevitably boil down to “because I said so.”

Our country and its people cannot afford another three decades of conservative control over the Supreme Court. If this nation ever wants to think about passing progressive legislation and not having it be immediately shot down by right-wing radicals on the most tenuous of legal arguments, we need term limits ASAP.

Demand term limits for the Supreme Court!

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