Justice & Court Reform
As the former chair and now ranking member of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet, Congressman Johnson is the leading voice in the House on court reform -- particularly the Supreme Court. Even before the 6-3 right-wing supermajority took control of the court, Rep. Johnson proposed legislation to expand the Supreme Court (Judiciary Act); require that the justices follow a code of ethics, transparency, and recusal standards (SCERT Act); and establish term limits for justices (TERM Act). Rep. Johnson has also introduced legislation to ensure that employees of the federal judiciary have strong statutory rights and protections against discrimination and workplace misconduct (JAA).
For more on the Congressman’s work on court reform, please read below.
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A group of congressional Democrats is urging Chief Justice John Roberts to make immediately available an audio recording of next month's arguments in the case challenging President Trump's travel ban.
The justices will hear arguments in the case April 25, and the five House Democrats believe the Supreme Court should make audio available on its website upon their conclusion.
Photo caption: Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York, center, the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, is joined by Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee, from left, Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Illinois, Rep. Bradley Schneider, D-Illinois, and Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Georgia.
DECATUR, GA – On the eighth anniversary of President Obama's signing of the Affordable Care Act, Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) called on Republicans to stop their sabotage and instead protect and improve Americans' health care by working to lower Americans' health care costs, including taking action on Democrats' A Better Deal to Lower the Cost of Prescription Drugs proposal.
Rep. Johnson also highlighted new state-by-state data detailing the consequences of Trumpcare and the GOP sabotage effort for Georgians.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04), ranking member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, sent a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte urging that he call Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify before the Committee regarding Facebook's role in Cambridge Analytica's collection and misuse of private user data:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Hank Johnson¬ (GA-04) – ranking member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet and author of the Arbitration Fairness Act – issued the following statement after signing on to the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) partisan decision on Net Neutrality:
Delivered January 20, 2018
Good afternoon, ladies and gentleman. … but mostly good afternoon ladies! Thank you so much to all of you for coming. What a wonderful crowd!
With an inept and misguided Majority in control, we have had continuing dysfunction in the Congress. And we can't even begin to describe the chaos, racism and sexism emanating from a White House that provides "shock and dismay" on a daily basis.
As we prepare to take in the Academy Awards, which turn 90 on Sunday, a recent report from UCLA shows while we've made some progress with diversity in Hollywood, we have long way to go.
When the Oscar nominations came out in 2015, not a single actor nominated for any lead or supporting role was a person of color.
The #OscarsSoWhite movement that followed birthed a groundswell of opposition to media leadership structures that seemed to only place value in telling white stories.
