Democrats introduced legislation Thursday that would enable a simple majority in Congress to override Supreme Court decisions like those that overturned the right to an abortion and gutted the governments ability to regulate carbon emissions.

The Supreme Court Review Act would give Congress the authority to quickly respond to Supreme Court rulings that overturn a previously recognized constitutional right, newly interpret or reinterpret a statute, or invalidate a proposed or enacted regulation. Supreme Court Review Act bills would be able to pass the Senate without being subject to the chambers 60-vote filibuster threshold.

The legislation, introduced by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) in the Senate and Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) in the House, comes on the heels of the Supreme Courts hard-right turn during the first full term of the six-vote conservative supermajority installed by President Donald Trump .

In this historic term, the court ended nationwide protections for abortion care by overturning Roe v. Wade , weakened the Environmental Protection Agencys ability to respond to climate change, further gutted state gun control laws , rolled back Miranda rights for criminal defendants, and hollowed out precedents supporting the separation of church and state. Public confidence in the court has since collapsed to historic lows .

Six radical justices enacted a bonanza of right-wing policies during the last term, reshaping American life in wildly unpopular ways over just a matter of days, Whitehouse said in a statement introducing the legislation. The American people are fed up with policymaking by unaccountable Supreme Court justices, and we have a solution. This important good-government reform would check the activist Courts rogue decisions by ensuring policymaking stays where the Constitution delegated it: in the hands of the American people and their elected representatives.