The Supreme Court Stability and Accountability Act

PREAMBLE

AN ACT to restore the constitutional equilibrium of the United States. It aims to ensure that the Judiciary remains an instrument of stability rather than a source of radical disruption. The act seeks to protect the fundamental rights of the American people. It aims to shield them from the influence of concentrated wealth and ideological extremism. Additionally, it strives to modernize the administration of justice through technological transparency and democratic accountability.

WHEREAS, the Supreme Court of the United States derives its ultimate legitimacy from the consent of the governed and the stability of the social contract;

WHEREAS, the practice of lifetime tenure, in an era of unprecedented lifespans and partisan polarization, has transformed judicial appointments into high-stakes political crises that undermine public trust in the rule of law;

WHEREAS, the emergence of “Lawfare” and the influx of undisclosed financial influence have created a perception of a Judiciary responsive to the few rather than the many;

WHEREAS, the sudden overturning of decades of settled precedent creates economic and social chaos that threatens the security and liberty of ninety-five percent of the American populace;

WHEREAS, the Constitution, in Article III, Section 2, grants Congress the power to make exceptions and regulations regarding the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to preserve the health of the Republic;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the following titles shall establish the new standard for a stable, transparent, and democratically accountable Judiciary:

TITLE I: Composition of the Court and the “Deep Bench”

Section 101. Numerical Composition. (a) The Supreme Court of the United States shall be composed of twenty-seven (27) Justices commissioned under Article III of the Constitution. (b) The Justices shall be divided into two tiers of service:

1. The Active Panel: Consisting of thirteen (13) Justices who shall exercise the primary appellate jurisdiction of the Court, hear oral arguments, and cast votes on final judgments.
2. The Reserve Pool: Consisting of fourteen (14) Justices who shall maintain their commissions but shall not vote on Supreme Court judgments except in cases of recusal or emergency vacancy as outlined in Section 103.

Section 102. The Initial Balancing (Bridge Justices). (a) To reach the 27 seat requirement, the President shall appoint “Bridge Justices” to fill the Reserve Pool. (b) Mandatory Seniority: Candidates for Bridge Justice appointments must be of an age where, by operation of Title III, they will transition to Senior Status or full retirement within ten (10) years of their commission.

Section 103. The Emergency Fill. In the event an Active Justice is recused or incapacitated, a member of the Reserve Pool shall be selected by blind lottery to serve as a voting member for that specific matter. This ensures a full 13 member panel.

TITLE II: The Cycle of Service and Regularity

Section 201. Staggered Appointments. (a) A permanent vacancy shall be deemed to exist on the Active Panel on the first and third year of every Presidential term. (b) Upon the confirmation of a new Justice to the Active Panel, the Justice with the longest tenure on the Active Panel shall be transitioned to the Reserve Pool.

Section 202. The 18-Year Tenure. No Justice shall serve on the Active Panel for a period exceeding eighteen (18) cumulative years. Completion of this term shall trigger an automatic transition to the Reserve Pool.

TITLE III: The Mandatory Retirement and Senior Status

Section 301. The “Rule of 75”. (a) Notwithstanding the 18-year term, any Justice who reaches the age of seventy-five (75) shall be immediately transitioned from the Active Panel to the Reserve Pool. (b) Justices in the Reserve Pool who reach the age of eighty (80) shall be transitioned to Senior Status, as defined in 28 U.S.C. § 371, and shall no longer be eligible for the Emergency Fill lottery for the Supreme Court.

TITLE IV: The Binding Code of Judicial Ethics

Section 401. Establishment of the Judicial Ethics Board (JEB). (a) There is hereby established an independent JEB composed of five (5) Chief Judges from the United States Courts of Appeals, selected annually by blind lottery. (b) The JEB shall have subpoena power and the authority to issue binding public reprimands or recommend impeachment to the House of Representatives.

Section 402. Mandatory Recusal and Financial Disclosure. (a) The $1,000 Rule: Any Justice who has received any gift, travel, or thing of value exceeding $1,000 from a party, attorney, or “amicus curiae” filer—or any entity funded by them—within the last 20 years is statutorily barred from participating in that case. (b) Real-Time Disclosure: All Justices must log all outside income and gifts in a public, digital database within 24 hours of receipt.

Section 403. The Lighthouse AI (OJTO). (a) There is established the Office of Judicial Technical Oversight (OJTO), an independent technical agency. (b) The Documentarian Mandate: The OJTO shall deploy a sovereign AI auditor to produce a “Neutrality and Consistency Report” for every Supreme Court decision. (c) The Reconstruction Standard: The AI shall audit rulings against the “Reconstruction and New Deal Precedents” (all law post-1865). (d) Conflict Mapping: The AI shall automatically cross-reference the donor lists of all “Amicus” filers against the financial disclosures of the Justices and highlight any correlation in a public “Transparency Appendix” attached to the ruling.

TITLE V: The Sovereign Ratification and “Break Glass” Clause

Section 501. The Redline Warning (The Tripwire). (a) Issuance: The Office of Judicial Technical Oversight (OJTO) shall issue a “Redline Warning” whenever a majority opinion of the Supreme Court meets one or more of the following criteria as audited by the Lighthouse AI:

1. The Precedent Rule: The ruling overturns a “Settled Precedent” that has stood for fifty (50) years or longer.
2. The Reconstruction Standard: The ruling substantially narrows or eliminates a civil right or public protection established during the Reconstruction or New Deal eras.
3. The Stability Rule: The ruling creates an immediate and widespread disruption to existing state or federal social contracts (e.g., healthcare, marriage, or voting eligibility).

Section 502. The Automatic Stay of Execution. (a) Upon the issuance of a Redline Warning, the enforcement of the Supreme Court’s judgment is automatically stayed (suspended) by operation of law. (b) Status Quo Maintenance: During the period of the stay, the legal “status quo” as it existed prior to the ruling remains in full effect. No benefits shall be terminated, and no rights shall be extinguished until the conclusion of the Ratification Cycle.

Section 503. The National Ratification Referendum. (a) Ballot Placement: Any ruling under a Redline Warning shall be placed on the national ballot during the next regularly scheduled Federal General Election. (b) The Referendum Question: The ballot shall present the following question to the electorate:

• “The Supreme Court has moved to overturn the established legal right/protection of [Name of Precedent/Law]. Shall this judicial decision be ratified as the new Law of the Land, or shall it be Vetoed to preserve the existing standard?” (c) The Veto Power: If a simple majority of the national popular vote chooses “VETO,” the Supreme Court’s ruling is nullified and rendered void.

Section 504. Permanent Codification (The “Immunity” Clause). (a) Upon a successful National Veto, the law or precedent in question shall be deemed “Sovereign-Ratified.” (b) A Sovereign-Ratified law is immune from further judicial review by the Supreme Court on the same legal theories or grounds for a period of no less than fifty (50) years.

Section 505. Protection Against Sabotage. (a) Non-Sunset Clause: Title V is a permanent institutional fixture. It cannot be sunset or deactivated by executive order or a simple majority of Congress. (b) Anti-Defunding: Funding for the Referendum process and the OJTO’s Redline monitoring is a non-discretionary federal expenditure.

TITLE VI: The Architecture of the Lighthouse AI (OJTO)

Section 601. The Principle of Sovereign Neutrality. (a) Immutable Core: The Lighthouse AI shall be a “Sovereign Model,” hosted on secure, air-gapped federal servers. Its core weights and training data shall be transparent and immutable, except by authorized ethical updates. (b) The Non-Adversarial Mandate: The AI is prohibited from “advocating” for a side. Its logic must be strictly documentarian, comparing the current majority opinion against the Reconstruction Standard (post-1865) and established legal logic.

Section 602. International Ethical Oversight (The Global Audit). (a) The Board of Overseers: To ensure the AI remains free from domestic political bias, a permanent Technical Ethics Council shall be established.

1. Composition: The Council shall consist of 9 members: 3 domestic legal scholars, 3 domestic data scientists, and 3 international observers from high-court jurisdictions (e.g., the European Court of Human Rights or Commonwealth high courts).
2. The Annual Audit: Every 12 months, this Council shall perform a “Deep Audit” of the AI’s decision-making logic to ensure no partisan or corporate bias has crept into its weighted processing.

Section 603. Open Source & Public Accessibility. (a) The Public Portal: The OJTO shall maintain a real-time public dashboard where any citizen can view the AI’s “Internal Logic Tree” for any case currently before the Supreme Court. (b) Plain-English Translation: For every 100-page judicial ruling, the AI is statutorily mandated to produce a “95% Impact Report.” This report must be:

1. Written at a 10th-grade reading level.
2. Free of legalese.
3. Explicit in stating how the ruling changes the property, privacy, or civil rights of the average citizen. (c) Open Data: The AI’s training datasets (comprising 250 years of US legal history) shall be open-source and downloadable, allowing universities and tech-ethics groups to run their own parallel “Lighthouses” to check the government’s work.

(d) The “Baseline” Opinion:

1. Mandatory Drafting: For every case, the Lighthouse AI must generate a “Baseline Neutrality Opinion” before the human Justices release their ruling.
2. Methodology: This opinion must be based strictly on a “Stable Precedent” model. It uses the weight of the last 100 years of rulings (The Reconstruction/New Deal Standard) to determine the most statistically and legally consistent outcome.
3. The Divergence Report: When the human Court issues its final ruling, the AI automatically compares the two. If there is a disagreement, the AI must publish a “Divergence Report” which:
   • Highlights exactly which precedents the human Justices ignored or “re-interpreted.”
   • Identifies the specific legal “innovation” used by the Court to reach a non-traditional conclusion.
   • Quantifies the “Bias Delta”—a metric showing how much the ruling benefited a concentrated interest (the 1%) versus the established rights of the 95%.

Section 604. The Financial “Follow the Money” Integration. (a) Real-Time Cross-Referencing: The AI shall have a direct, read-only link to the financial disclosure databases of the IRS, the FEC, and the Judicial Ethics Board. (b) The Influence Map: For every “Amicus Curiae” brief filed by a lobby or interest group, the AI will generate a “Funding Proximity Score,” showing any direct or indirect financial connections between that group’s donors and the sitting Justices. This map is published as a mandatory appendix to the court’s official ruling.

Section 605. Protection from Algorithmic Capture. (a) Anti-Corporate Clause: No private corporation (Big Tech) may provide the infrastructure, hosting, or “tuning” for the Lighthouse AI. It must be a purely public-sector utility. (b) The “Dead Man’s Switch”: If the International Oversight Board determines (by a 2/3 vote) that the AI has been compromised by a partisan actor or a trillionaire interest, the system enters “Safe Mode,” where it ceases issuing Redline Warnings but continues to log and publish all raw data to the public until the compromise is cleared.