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Historian of sci, tech, and American politics. Author of *Coal & Empire* w/@JHUPress. Associate Professor of History @CWRU. Edits @HistOpinion. I ❤️ Archives.

Sep 29, 2020, 5 tweets

My proposals for Supreme Court reform:

(1) Current Supreme Court building converted to legal history museum; justices return to hearing cases in the Capitol basement;

(2) Congress tells court it must consider every appeal; President Biden nominates the scores of additional justices needed to handle the increased caseload;

(3) Solicitors General barred from wearing traditional morning coat attire and must instead wear overalls like the real salt of the earth;

(4) Yes, obviously 18 year staggered terms (for the hundreds of justices) but also after the 18 years each has to live in the circumstances of the least advantaged party to appear before them.

(5) When ruling on the constitutionality of federal laws, Congress can overrule them with simple bicameral majorities, but only if they include the phrase "this is a democracy, not a judgocracy" in the text of the bill.

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