Justice & Court Reform

"The critical issues that impact our day-to-day lives ― such as voting and civil rights, reproductive freedom, climate justice, and consumer and workers' rights ― are being decided by a GOP-packed conservative supermajority on a United States Supreme Court, which is destroying its own legitimacy with partisan decisions that are upending decades of precedent and progress in this nation," said Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), the bill's lead sponsor. "I want to thank Chair Jayapal and the entire Progressive Caucus for endorsing and supporting the Judiciary Act."

Judiciary Committee members have introduced several other bills to modernize the judiciary's ethics, disclosure, and transparency rules, which could be swept into omnibus legislation.

"Reforms in our judiciary are needed and past due," said Rep. Hank Johnson, a Georgia Democrat who heads the House Judiciary Committee's courts subcommittee. "The covers are off, and people understand the judicial branch has done an excellent job protecting itself and insulating itself from change. But the need for change is glaring."