Michael Farris

Michael Farris had big plans for changing the Constitution. He said in late 2013:

"If I am a delegate to the Convention of States I will propose reconfiguring the Supreme Court after the model of the European Court of Human Rights. There are 46 nations in that court’s jurisdiction, and every nation appoints one judge. We should expand the Supreme Court to 50 justices and have the states appoint the justices for a specific term (6 or 8 years) with no right of reappointment. That one change would do more to ensure a constitutional government than anything I know of."

In early 2017, Michael Farris announced that he was taking a sabbatical from Patrick Henry College to become CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom, a group that litigates mostly religious liberty cases.