Gabe Roth

Jan 13, 2025 | fixthecourt.com | Gabe Roth

January 13, 2025 Any legislative proposal aimed at curbing nationwide injunctions should include the following three principles:1. Transparency: Lawsuits seeking to stop a law, regulation or policy from going into effect must not hide the ball and must say so in the filing. 2. Procedural clarity: These lawsuits may be filed in any district, or division within a district, in the country.

Jan 12, 2025 | fixthecourt.com | Gabe Roth

January 12, 2025 A single judge, located anywhere in the U.S., has the power under current laws and practices to prevent the implementation of a federal regulation, law or other policy nationwide. That’s called a nationwide injunction, and it binds us all — even those of us (i.e., the vast majority of Americans) who are not parties to the litigation in question. That is too much power for a single judge to have.

Dec 10, 2024 | fixthecourt.com | Gabe Roth

The bottom line: trust the judges who say we need more judgesFix the Court today is calling on the White House to reverse its opposition to the JUDGES Act — a bipartisan bill to add judgeships that most Democrats supported just five weeks ago, and which passed the Senate unanimously before the August recess — and is encouraging the House to continue on its path to passing the legislation this week.

Dec 9, 2024 | fixthecourt.com | Gabe Roth

December 9, 2024 Sens. Joe Manchin and Peter Welch have introduced a constitutional amendment that would restrict future Supreme Court justices to, at most, 18-year terms. Though Fix the Court was consulted on the resolution, we are not endorsing due since we believe that, via statute, future justices could be rotated off the Court after 18 years. That said, we’re always happy to see members of Congress consider much-needed court reform.

Dec 4, 2024 | fixthecourt.com | Gabe Roth

December 4, 2024 With all the discussion this week about how enforceable ethics could happen at the Supreme Court, here’s Fix the Court’s take on what that might look like in practice, via six simple steps:Step 1. The Chief Justice would appoint a judicial council comprising seven senior judges, a staff director and other staff as necessary that collectively would receive complaints about the justices. Why seven? That’s how many judges sit on judicial councils on the circuit level.