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court reform
July 29, 2024
Paige Oamek
Mike Johnson Torches Biden Attempt to Rein in Corrupt Supreme Court
Mike Johnson is a big fan of the Supreme Court exactly how it is.
April 24, 2024
Matt Ford
How to Fix the Right-Wing Racket in the Texas Courts
The Fifth Circuit's become little more than a junior varsity version of the Supreme Court. Sending some new judges to the Lone Star State will help put things right.
August 19, 2023
Jason Linkins
Look Who’s Defying the Supreme Court Now
Republicans haven’t lost too often at the high court of late—but when they do, they’re sore losers indeed.
August 16, 2023
Simon Lazarus
The Liberal Case for Celebrating the Supreme Court’s Last Term
Instead of greeting the most recent set of decisions from the Roberts Court with downcast disses, critics should recognize—and celebrate—the way they influenced the results.
April 27, 2023
Grace Segers
Don’t Look Now, but a Bipartisan Plan to Rein in the Supreme Court Has Arrived
Clarence Thomas’s news-making scandals have senators eager to rein in the high court. At least one Republican has signed on to the effort.
March 16, 2023
Simon Lazarus
Sorry, Clarence Thomas, but Supreme Court Ethics Reform Is on the Table
A plan to save the high court from its own excesses—with bipartisan buy-in—is gathering steam. Here are the next steps to build on the unexpected momentum.
January 26, 2023
Simon Lazarus
Bipartisan Supreme Court Reform Is Not a Pipe Dream
By backing the implementation of ethics reforms already practiced in the lower courts instead of more radical solutions, liberals can make a case with which conservatives might agree.
July 7, 2022
Matt Ford
The Rise of the Hereditary Judiciary
As more and more judges engineer their own end-of-career successions, the rule of law is starting to warp in dangerous and unsustainable ways.
January 29, 2022
Jason Linkins
The Supreme Court at the Crossroads of Hackery
How will the law work in a world where the high court is making up the rules as it goes along?
January 5, 2022
Matt Ford
Can John Roberts Save the Supreme Court From Itself?
The chief justice’s veiled end-of-year remarks seem to indicate that if the high court cannot reform itself, reform will be forced upon it.
December 8, 2021
Matt Ford
Biden’s Supreme Court Reform Commission Gives Court-Packing Two Thumbs Down
Proponents of the controversial proposal to add justices to the high court will take little solace from the group’s final draft report.
October 15, 2021
Matt Ford
The White House Report on Supreme Court Reform Made a Glaring Omission
The draft report, while long on critiques of court-packing, failed to address the root of the high court’s predicament—the confirmation process itself.
May 6, 2021
Simon Lazarus
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Robert Litan
The Democrats Are Doing Court Reform Backward
They’ve responded to Trump’s makeover of the courts with legislative nonstarters and shortsighted proposals. But the party first needs to sell the public on its vision for a liberal judiciary.
October 23, 2020
Alex Shephard
Joe Biden and the Return of the Dreaded Bipartisan Commission
The Democrat’s proposed commission on court reform is an elaborate way of dodging the court-packing question. It also bodes ill for his presidency.
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