1/ The first of two threads on our new piece on Supreme Court reform--please check it out!
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
2/ For me, this topic arose when @YaleLawSch students responding to a ... difficult semester at the school banded together to study the Supreme Court and alternative imaginable reforms to it nytimes.com/2018/09/26/nyr…
3/ This was an exercise in democratic constitutionalism - but one that started by refusing the premise that the institutional form of the Supreme Court is fixed and democracy is best conceived as mobilization and countermobilization in its shadow.
4/ In spring 2019, the students staged their own class -- including both students in the picture above -- and I got to sit in and learn as they learned. What they produced is an exceedingly valuable and non-partisan menu of options for reform. scotusreform.com
5/ It has a wealth of background information and even lets you take a quiz to pick the reform that's right for you. Give it a try!
6/ I am grateful to the students for having such a big impact, at least on me! The next thread will solicit comment on the underlying paper with @rddoerfler (linked in "The Atlantic" article) from the great scholars who have also worked on this topic or are doing so now.
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