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Supreme Court reform

The Supreme Court of the United States is corrupt. The breakdown of the Court into right-wing partisanship began in earnest a quarter-century ago with the Bush v. Gore decision. It was a watershed moment for the Court and the country for which we still have yet to recover. The problem exacerbated with the theft of two Supreme Court seats to entrench a 6-3 conservative majority.

Uncorrupt the court

Several disturbing reports revealed serious corruption. Clarence Thomas, the most notable example, accepted luxury travel and other gifts from a billionaire with business interests before the Court. Neil Gorsuch, days before his confirmation to the Court, managed to offload a property—which he unable to sell for roughly two years—for $1.825 million. The Court instituted a voluntary code of conduct—and it is woefully inadequate.

It is capture of the Court by the wealthy and powerful. It must end.

Modernize the Court

In 1789, the Court was established with six justices and later reduced and expanded between five and ten justices over the next 80 years. It was set at nine justices in 1869. It often shifted to maintain parallel with the number of federal circuits which currently stand at thirteen.

Matt will fight for Supreme Court reform. Public perception of the Court continues to nosedive. It is made worse every time the Court abuses the shadow docket, overrules long-held precedent, and contorts to carry out bidding of this administration. He believes we need to:

  • Expand the Court to institute membership rotation for each Court term
  • Tie the number of active seats to federal circuits (13)
  • Establish an enforceable code of conduct by which justices are required to abide
    • Prohibit supplemental income while serving
    • Guidelines by which justices are required to recuse
    • Acts by the justices in which impeachment must be considered
  • Greater transparency within the Court
    • Cameras for oral arguments
    • Court disclosure of public appearances by justices
Impeachment newspaper headlines

Impeachment

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. Criminal acts are carried out in the open near daily. We are a nation of laws. The rule of law must be protected and upheld.

Matt will fight for impeachment. Accountability for this administration and its actions must be relentless. Its crimes must be made plain for the American people. A judgment by the Congress must be registered with history. We must act in accordance with the demands this emergency requires.

Impeachment of Donald Trump

Donald Trump must be impeached for an unprecedented third time. These offenses include but are not limited to:

Impeachment of Cabinet members

Several cabinet members committed grave offenses and must be removed from office.

For the illegal use of force against Venezuela, a sovereign nation which has not attacked the United States:

  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio
  • Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth
  • Attorney General Pam Bondi
  • CIA Director John Radcliffe

For the premeditated murder of foreign nationals at sea:

  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio
  • Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth

For crimes against humanity in the use of a foreign torture gulag:

  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio
  • Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem

For the violation of civil rights of United States citizens and lawful immigrants:

  • Attorney General Pam Bondi
  • Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem

For the uncontrolled spread of preventable diseases which resulted in the loss of life:

  • Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

For obstruction of justice in failure to comply with the release of the Epstein files:

  • Attorney General Pam Bondi

For the unlawful dismantling of the Department of Education:

  • Secretary of Education Linda McMahon

For the unlawful dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID):

Secretary of State and Acting Director of USAID Marco Rubio

Abolish ICE

Abolish ICE

This administration and their Republican lackeys in Congress greatly increased the budget for immigration and deportation measures to $170 billion. It makes immigration enforcement the largest paramilitary force in the country. The budget surpasses all annual law enforcement expenditures on police by state and local governments. Deportation operations under ICE saw a three-fold increase in its annual budget. $30 billion over four years to hire 10,000 new agents.

DHS and ICE recruitment propaganda are overtly white supremacist. The standards and training for new ICE agents are abysmal. The process, by which corners are cut, was described as a “shit show.” The results are predictable.

Masked ICE agents without name badges are documented to have:

  • Murdered a woman in her car in Minnesota
  • Unlawfully detained U.S. citizens without proper due process
  • Unlawfully detained legal immigrants without proper due process
  • Misidentified individuals with benign NIKE or autism tattoos as signifiers for MS-13 gang membership and deported them to a foreign torture gulag
  • Drawn firearms on peaceful protesters
  • Fired “non-lethal” projectiles at peaceful protesters including in the head
  • Violently assault U.S. citizens and immigrants on the streets and within government buildings

Despite its claims to deport “the worst of the worst,” data leaked in October 2025 showed only 5 percent of those detained by ICE held violent convictions. 73 percent had no convictions at all.

Matt will fight for the abolition of ICE and prosecution of human rights violators. Under this administration, supercharged by the Republican Congress with massive increase to its budget, ICE is a flagrant human rights violator. It regularly violates the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens and immigrants of every status. ICE agents hide their identities in an attempt to escape accountability.

ICE must be abolished and its functions drawn-and-quartered into separate agencies and rebuilt from the ground-up. We must clean house. Everybody involved in this national disgrace must understand that the present circumstances are not going to last forever. There will be a day of reckoning and it is coming.

Statue of Liberty

Constitutional reform

America’s democracy is in peril. We are living through a persistent, rolling constitution crisis. This president exposed cracks in our democracy and government. An administration that is the largest existential crisis our nation faced since the Confederacy. They must be held accountable for the laws they break and the lives they upend.

In our pursuit of justice and accountability, however, we cannot lose sight of the future. We must also concern ourselves with those cracks he exploited. They did not form overnight. Nor will they vanish with Trump. The fascist movement he built will outlast him. We as Americans must commit ourselves to a long-term program of constitutional reform.

Matt will fight for historic constitutional reforms to strengthen our democracy and the rule of law. Congressional statute can only get us so far. We must also undertake the arduous task of laying the groundwork for a constitutional amendment or series of constitutional amendments as corrective.

We can make our democracy more responsive and resilient. We owe it to future generations.

By congressional statute
  • Voting rights, elections, and representation
    • Pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act
    • Restoration of voting rights for the formerly incarcerated
    • Outlaw partisan gerrymandering
    • Expand the House of Representatives from fixed 435 seats set in the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 and guarantee proportional representation
    • Campaign finance reform
  • Institutional safeguards
    • Clarify Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to establish a national procedure for the disqualification of federal candidates in response to Trump v. Anderson
    • Define and clarify the Emoluments Clause in Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution to require disclosure, divestment, and require enforcement
    • Codify the independence of the Department of Justice, federal agencies
    • Establish procedures and independent enforcement to penalize the Executive for failure to comply with a court order
    • Strengthen protections for inspectors general and whistleblowers
    • Codify civil service protections
    • Strengthen congressional subpoena enforcement mechanisms
  • Judicial reform
    • Supreme Court reform
    • Expand lower court capacity to reduce case backlogs
    • Increase funding federal public defenders
    • Prevent judge shopping through random assignment requirements
    • Establish mandatory accountability mechanisms for ethics violations
    • Restrictions on supplemental income
By constitutional amendment or amendments
  • Reverse Supreme Court rulings
    • Reverse Shelby County v. Holder and restore the Voting Rights Act of 1964
    • Reverse Trump v. United States, abolish presidential immunity, and affirm presidents are subject to criminal prosecution
    • Reverse Citizens United v. FEC and reform campaign finance
    • Reverse Loper Bright v. Raimondo to return regulatory implementation back to federal agency experts, not the Court
  • Abolish the Electoral College in favor of a national popular vote
  • Restrict the “plenary” presidential pardon power from Ex parte Garland
    • Prohibitions on pardons for:
      • Immediate family members
      • Donors to any of the president’s presidential campaigns, affiliated super PACs, presidential library, or affiliated organizations
      • Persons who carried out illegal orders within the Executive
      • Persons prosecuted on cases which relate to the Executive including co-conspirators
    • Grant Congress the power to enforce provisions through legislation