Enforce Real Ethics Requirements, End Lifetime Appointments, and Expand the Supreme Court and federal courts so that right-wing extremists cannot sell our fundamental rights and freedoms to the highest bidder.
Enforce real ethics requirements, end lifetime appointments, and expand the Supreme Court and federal courts.
Occurrences
we must expand the Supreme Court and end lifetime appointments for unelected justices to the highest court of the land.
We must expand the Supreme Court and federal courts so that right-wing extremists cannot strip away our fundamental rights and end lifetime appointments to the highest court in the land.
Original cosponsors include ... Summer Lee (PA-12).
Evidence
Original cosponsors include ... Ted W. Lieu ... Cleo Fields ... Summer Lee (PA-12) ... The SCERT Act requires justices of the Supreme Court to adopt and follow a binding code of ethics with an enforcement mechanism for resolving ethics or misconduct complaints, creates a process to investigate and enforce violations of the code, mandates improvements to the recusal process, places transparency standards on gifts and travel, and prevents shadow lobbying by litigants and amici curiae by requiring amici to disclose more information about who is funding their amicus briefs.
Mr. Khanna (for himself, Mr. Beyer, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Casten, Ms. Omar, Mr. Goldman of New York, Mr. Vargas, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania, and Ms. Ansari) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. The bill would establish a process by which the appointment of Supreme Court Justices can occur at regular time intervals ... After a Justice has served 18 years, that Justice shall be deemed a Justice retired from regular active service ...
Congresswoman Summer L. Lee ... introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United v. FEC and rein in corporate influence in American politics. The amendment would restore Congress’s and states’ authority to set reasonable limits on political spending ...
The Supreme Court has long held that limits on contributions impose only a 'marginal restriction' on free speech ... The Abolish Super PACs Act is endorsed by ... Court Accountability ...
Assessments
Lee has materially pursued multiple parts of the promise in office: she cosponsored the 2025 SCERT Act to impose binding Supreme Court ethics and transparency rules, cosponsored the 2025 Supreme Court term-limits bill to end practical lifetime service, and backed related anti-corruption measures such as overturning Citizens United and abolishing Super PACs. However, the evidence shows introduction and cosponsorship rather than enactment or completed court expansion. Because she advanced significant legislation on the ethics and lifetime-appointments components but did not deliver the promised outcomes, and there is no evidence that the Supreme Court or federal courts were expanded, the best judgment is partial rather than delivered.