James Talarico

And so I want to lead on this issue as a U.S.

senator.

I don't want our country to stick its head in the sand.

I want us to be forward-looking.

I want us to be ambitious.

And I want us to figure out how we make these technologies work for us instead of against us.

Yeah.

I mean, I think we have to have a

We've seen how corruption can infect the judicial branch just as easily as the executive and legislative branches.

And so I'm very open to a conversation about reforms needed for the Supreme Court.

I think passing term limits could provide more balance on the court, could help lower the temperature every time there's a vacancy.

I think a binding code of conduct for our justices is absolutely necessary.

And I'm very open to other ideas about how to reform the judicial branch more broadly, but I think it's a very valid concern people have.

In the state legislature, I led on just reform issues, particularly when it came to...

to youth, young people who are incarcerated because they are the most vulnerable members of our community, our most vulnerable neighbors.

And in fact, one bill that I was able to pass on a bipartisan basis was a bill to allow incarcerated minors in Texas to graduate with a high school diploma.

And I remember I got that bill passed through the legislature, got it signed by the governor.

And then I was invited out to Ferguson Prison in East Texas to give the first ever commencement address to the first graduates under my bill.

And I watched as the first kid, his name was Lonnie.

He was the first kid to graduate under my legislation.