A business executive and philanthropist has pledged $30 million to launch a first-of-its-kind center pushing to overhaul the Supreme Court.
The major gift from Jim Kohlberg, chairman and co-founder of Kohlberg & Co., will fund research, public outreach, and policy advocacy over a decade at the Brennan Center for Justice, affiliated with New York University.
The initiative will be called the Kohlberg Center on the U.S. Supreme Court. The nonpartisan, nonprofit Brennan Center has often supported liberal positions on voting, criminal justice, money in politics, and other law and policy issues.
The Kohlberg Center will advocate term limits for justices and a stronger code of ethics.
It will also explore other changes, such as how the court handles emergency cases, giving Congress legislative tools to respond quickly to rulings by the justices, and constraining the court’s ability to curb regulation on the environment, public health, and financial markets.
The initiative begins immediately, with operations in New York City and Washington.
