Wisdom, Justice, Moderation
To award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Freedom Riders, collectively, in recognition of their unique contribution to Civil Rights, which inspired a revolutionary movement for equality in interstate travel.
The bill formally honors and preserves the Freedom Riders' legacy and allows the Mint to produce and sell duplicate medals with minimal upfront cost to taxpayers, but it is primarily symbolic and carries modest fiscal and pricing risks to the MintFund and potential buyers.
Open Meetings Act of 2026
The bill increases public transparency and accountability of the Judicial Conference by requiring notice, live audio, and explanations for closures, at the expense of added administrative costs and a risk that officials will limit candid internal deliberations or produce rushed archives.
Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act
The bill strengthens transparency, inventory controls, and some transfer limits to curb misuse and community militarization while still allowing free transfers that save agencies money—creating a trade-off between cost/access for responders and risks of militarized policing, taxpayer liabilities, and new administrative burdens.
Constitutional Accountability Act
The bill significantly expands private remedies and accountability for victims of law‑enforcement constitutional violations, improving access to relief and raising incentives for reform, but it also raises substantial litigation costs and liability risks for governments, employers, and contractors that could lead to higher taxpayer burdens, defensive policing, and court congestion.
Bivens Act of 2025
The amendment could improve accountability and legal clarity by changing §1983 remedies and taking effect immediately, but it risks narrowing protections, increasing litigation costs, and creating transitional legal uncertainty for governments and affected communities.
FAIR Act of 2025
The bill shifts dispute resolution power away from forced private arbitration toward public courts—expanding access to collective remedies and enforcement while increasing litigation exposure and uncertainty for businesses and creating trade-offs between transparency, speed, and cost.
RAP Act of 2025
The bill strengthens protections for creative expression and increases procedural safeguards to keep prejudicial artistic material out of juries, but raises prosecutors' burdens and may add pretrial costs, evidentiary distortions, and definitional uncertainty.
Supreme Court Tenure Establishment and Retirement Modernization Act of 2025
The bill trades greater predictability, regularized turnover, and mechanisms to keep the Supreme Court functioning for substantial risks of constitutional challenge, reduced judicial continuity and experience, and increased politicization and legal uncertainty.
Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act of 2025
The bill greatly increases transparency, recusal rules, and oversight to reduce conflicts and boost judicial accountability, at the cost of substantial administrative expense, added litigation and delay risks, privacy concerns, and potential politicization or separation‑of‑powers tensions.
