On Nov. 12, 2014, we launched Fix the Court under the premise that the Supreme Court was the most powerful, least accountable part of our government — and that we needed to fix this problem.

There’s no doubt that today, most Americans agree with us: the Court has too much power, and the justices have committed too many ethical misdeeds.

Though we’ve accomplished a great deal (see below), we’re not resting on our laurels. From broadcast to ethics, workplace conduct to judge-shopping, we’ll continue to lead the way toward bipartisan solutions that will create a more open and responsive judiciary.

Fix the Court founder and executive director Gabe Roth said: “If in 2014 you told me that in a few short years the Supreme Court would livestream its arguments, adopt a formal ethics code and post all of its financial disclosures and stock trades online — and that the press and public would start to care much more about judicial ethics — I might not have believed it. Yet here we are, with a few more items to achieve in the next decade (banning gifts, for starters).”

Here’s a small portion of what we’ve accomplished in the last 10 years:

— Our in-depth research has uncovered countless conflicts of interest, missed recusals and unreported gifts among Supreme Court justices and lower court judges
— That led to SCOTUS’s first-ever ethics code
— The Court now livestreams its oral arguments
— The first-ever 18-year SCOTUS term limits bill was introduced
— Judges and justices must now post their disclosures and stock trades online
— Free PACER and new workplace conduct laws for the judiciary are included in bipartisan bills that are nearing the finish line
— Newsrooms are now putting resources into researching judicial conflicts

Read the Nov. 12, 2014, USA TODAY article on our launch: