REFORM THE COURTS

Congressman Hank Johnson’s plan to reform our courts, ensure justice & accountability, restore trust.

• The Judiciary Act: Expands SCOTUS to make it more responsive to our growing country
 
• The Supreme Court Ethics Act: Requires justices follow a code of ethics
 
• The Judicial Accountability Act: Requires courts to protect their employees from workplace harassment
 
• The 21st Century Courts Act: Enhances accountability & transparency of the federal judiciary by instituting a comprehensive suite of reforms & modernizes our courts for the 21st century.
 
• District Court Judgeships Act: Alleviates case backlog by creating 203 new district court judgeships
 
• AMICUS Act: Brings transparency to amicus-based judicial lobbying for the first time.
 
• Open Courts Act: Modernizes the federal judiciary’s court records system (called CM/ECF) & makes court records freely available to the public (PACER).
 
• The Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT) Act: Requires justices of the Supreme Court to adopt and follow a code of ethics, places transparency standards on gifts and travel, codifies recusal standards and requires the court to disclose lobbying and dark money interests before it.
 
• The Supreme Court Tenure Establishment and Retirement Modernization (TERM) Act: Would establish term limits for Supreme Court justices while preserving constitutional protections for judicial independence in decision making.