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Progressive Dr. Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Democratic primary for Senate last week over a wet-blanket establishment Democrat, and the left has been on a high. Rightly so. El-Sayed is a progressive and a reformer who supports Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, and an arms embargo on Israel. He\u2019s young and energetic and does not, to my knowledge, have any Nazi-adjacent tattoos. He\u2019s probably the best candidate progressives can hope for in a battleground state like Michigan.<\/p>\n

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I support his candidacy enthusiastically, and I want people to remember I said that, because I\u2019m about to unload on him.<\/p>\n

For all of El-Sayed\u2019s strong lefty credentials, he has so far come off like an unserious neophyte on the most crucial issue that is needed to unlock the progressive agenda: court reform. There is nothing that El-Sayed wants to do that he can do without reforming the Supreme Court. As a senator, he would be a critical vote towards reforming the Supreme Court and breaking its hammerlock over our society.<\/p>\n

El-Sayed seems to understand the importance of Supreme Court reform. For one thing, he lists it as a priority on his campaign website\u2014and he\u2019s actually talked about it, which is more than I can say for most Democrats. He has said that the court \u201chas become a major impediment to democracy.\u201d So I\u2019ll give him that.<\/p>\n

But for an issue that demands concrete constitutional and civic solutions, El-Sayed has been light on the details for solving the problem he\u2019s correctly identified. The few details he has provided sound like he\u2019s been playing Mad-Libs with a ChatGPT \u201ccourt reform\u201d prompt. He has stitched together pleasing sounding buzzwords that amount to a fully incoherent strategy. In 2024 El-Sayed penned an article for the Detroit Metro Times<\/em> that talked about court reform and came to the conclusion that\u2026 it\u2019s complicated. He laid out all of the possible court reform plans and told readers that \u201cwe should try\u201d something<\/em>, without committing himself to any particular plan of action. If the question is \u201cDoes El-Sayed understand that there is a problem?,\u201d I\u2019d answer \u201cYes.\u201d If the question is \u201cDoes El-Sayed have a solution?\u201d I\u2019d be forced to answer, \u201cWhat is this man even talking about?\u201d<\/p>\n

As a candidate for Senate, El-Sayed got only slightly more specific. From what I can glean from his website and a TikTok video, his key proposal is term limits for Supreme Court justices. Now, I\u2019ve argued repeatedly that term limits are the fool\u2019s gold of court reform. They sound good, they\u2019re politically popular, and they fix nothing<\/em>. Don\u2019t get me wrong: I don\u2019t think Supreme Court justices should hold lifetime power. But I\u2019m far more concerned with how they wield their power than I am with the amount of time they get to hold it. Term limits do nothing to stop the current<\/em> court, and the current<\/em> evil it\u2019s doing. Even the promise that the current justices will be replaced at some point in the future ignores the fact that they might well be replaced by people who are just as committed as they are to continuing their predecessors\u2019 crusades against human rights and democracy.<\/p>\n

Moreover, term limits are the hardest thing to do from a constitutional perspective. All of the other court reforms\u2014from court expansion to jurisdiction stripping to ethics reform\u2014can be done without a constitutional amendment. But there\u2019s really no way to institute term limits without such an amendment. So when I hear Democrats extolling their love of term limits, all I hear are politicians selling the people on a solution they know<\/em> cannot be implemented. A US senator has lots of powers, but amending the Constitution is not one of them. When El-Sayed says I support \u201cterm limits,\u201d I interpret that as \u201cnothing will change but I can say I tried.\u201d<\/p>\n

All of that would be bad enough, but in the one instance I could find of El-Sayed getting specific about term limits, he elucidated a proposal that was particularly nonsensical. In this TikTok video from November 2025, El-Sayed suggests 10-year term limits. Why 10? I don\u2019t know, but my guess is that the number 10 focus-tested well with Elmo and his campaign staff. The most cited term-limit plans propose an 18-year term, and there is a very good reason for the number 18. If you have a nine-member Supreme Court all on staggered 18-year term limits, it would work out to two justices ending their terms over the course of four years. That would guarantee each president two appointments per four years in office. Eighteen-year term limits are being proposed because that\u2019s how the math works. Ten-year term limits might be a nice round number, but they don\u2019t actually make sense when plotted against four-year presidential terms. El-Sayed either knows that and doesn\u2019t care, or doesn\u2019t know why 18 years has emerged as the preferred term-limit option.<\/p>\n

As if to piss me off personally, El-Sayed suggested that he pulled this idea\u2014about the restructuring of an entire branch of government, mind you\u2014largely out of the air. In the video, El-Sayed said he was \u201cjust spitballing\u201d but that he has \u201cthought a lot about it.\u201d (For the record, I prefer Senate candidates who are not just spitballing<\/em> on the most critical issue for the advancement of the progressive agenda.) El-Sayed then elaborated that, in his vision, \u201cevery president should get three appointments\u201d to the Supreme Court. He said that with those three appointments, a president could either renominate a sitting justice to another 10-year term or appoint a whole new one and \u201cexpand the court.\u201d (On his campaign website, where he is presumably not just spitballing, El-Sayed drops the specifics and proposes \u201callowing the same number of appointments for each presidential term.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Friends, I consider myself an expert on Supreme Court reform, and I cannot tell you exactly what all this is supposed to mean. Does this mean that El-Sayed supports court expansion, as long as it is part of each president\u2019s new constitutionally allotted appointments? Uhh\u2026 maybe? But the bigger problem is that his proposal for three appointments per presidential term doesn\u2019t fit with how Supreme Court appointments actually work. I\u2019m no mathlete, so I could be missing something here\u2014but, as I see it, to square the math, a justice would need to be replaced every 1.4 years. But it would be frankly insane, even to me, a guy with some insane-sounding ideas, to continually replace justices on this fractional schedule. You\u2019d end up with justices hearing oral arguments and then being forcibly replaced before they could write their opinions. So either El-Sayed thinks that\u2019s a good idea (it\u2019s not) or he thinks we can replace just one-fourth of a justice every January (or June or whenever the hell these replacements are supposed to happen) or some kind of combination of both. Regardless, this plan would fail any contact with reality.<\/p>\n

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And that\u2019s before we get into all of the regular problems that bedevil all term limit proposals, not just El-Sayed\u2019s. What if a justice unexpectedly dies in the middle of their term, would replacing them count against a president\u2019s magic three appointments? Would these new appointments (or renominating the old ones for that matter) be subject to the advice and consent of the Senate? What if the Senate refused to approve of a second term for one of the sitting justices? How is any of this supposed to even work<\/em>?<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s the thing: It\u2019s not<\/em> supposed to work. Term limits are not a plan. Term limits are just focus-group tested sound bites designed to make people feel like something massive like Supreme Court reform is actually easy to do with an application of old-fashioned common sense. Term limits allow politicians to kick the Supreme Court reform can down the road: They\u2019re popular and they sound like they\u2019re doing something. But where is the part where El-Sayed addresses that \u201cmajor impediment to democracy\u201d stuff that is happening right now<\/em>? Because letting alleged attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh get \u201crenominated\u201d for another 10 years ain\u2019t it.<\/p>\n

El-Sayed is an epidemiologist. I\u2019m sure he would balk if I said we could prevent cancer by limiting Americans to just three cigarettes a day for 10 years, with another 10 years of smoking allowed to people who commit to using SPF-50 sunblock during the summer. He would refer me to data<\/em> and science<\/em> and implore me to speak to an expert before I ran my mouth about things I clearly do not understand.<\/p>\n

Similarly, El-Sayed is right now able to call up any court reform expert in the country to educate him on how court reform could work and needs to work. Law professor Leah Litman is one of the cohosts of Strict Scrutiny<\/em> (pretty much the most popular legal podcast around right now), a best-selling author who excels at explaining law to people who do not have law degrees, and teaches at the University of Michigan. She literally lives in the same state. El-Sayed could call her right now and, within two hours, be able to speak more coherently and knowledgeably about court reform.<\/p>\n

But he hasn\u2019t. Instead, he\u2019s trying to spitball his way through this critical issue.<\/p>\n

And this is why Democrats, democratic socialists, and all manner of lefty progressive activist types continually get our heads bashed in by the right wing when it comes to the Supreme Court. Republicans always treat the court as their most important bastion of power, the undemocratic branch that can trump all others. Lefties, of every description, treat the court like an afterthought, the thing that can be dealt with after all their more important policy initiatives are put in place.<\/p>\n

We, on the left, have it completely ass-backwards. The Supreme Court is the first thing that must be addressed. Because if it is not addressed, then the Supreme Court can and will kill the entire rest of the progressive agenda. El-Sayed supports Medicare for All. So do I. Do you know how quickly the current Supreme Court will overrule a Medicare for All bill passed by Congress? Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch will get into a fistfight in the high court cafeteria over who gets the honor of punting Medicare for All into the sun.<\/p>\n

We have to do better. El-Sayed has to do better. I want El-Sayed to win the election. I would have voted for him in the primary if I lived in Michigan. I want him to get to Washington and do all of the things he talks about. But if he, and both the progressive and establishment wings of the Democratic Party, cannot get court reform right, then he won\u2019t be able to do any of the things he\u2019s promised. If they don\u2019t address the court first, then nothing else they address will matter. The Supreme Court, as currently constituted, will not allow<\/em> Democrats to tackle this country\u2019s problems. If you don\u2019t believe me just read literally any of its rulings this decade when it comes to voting rights, labor rights, women\u2019s rights, gun rights, or the limits on presidential power. The Supreme Court is not hiding the ball on its agenda. At some point, Democrats must read the memo the court has repeatedly sent them.<\/p>\n

There is no progressive agenda without liberal control of the Supreme Court. Progressives like El-Sayed need to understand that. Until he does, until the people most excited for his candidacy do, we will continue to lose, no matter how many primaries and even general elections we win.<\/p>\n

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