Ī recent cascade of ethics scandals has laid bare a system in which justices wield tremendous power for decades with little accountability, footnote2_wo096u5 2 Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott, and Alex Mierjeski, “Clarence Thomas Had a Child in Private School. The Founders did not gift us this constellation of features.” Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, Closing Reflections on the Supreme Court and Constitutional Governance, J(statement of Jamal Greene, Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School), 6. In constitutional cases, the decisions the Court reaches are effectively unreviewable except by the Court itself, amendment of the federal Constitution having become effectively defunct. Senate, plays a major role in deciding what cases they hear, can potentially remain in office for 40 or 50 years, and can, in effect, choose the ideology of their replacement, who may in turn hold office for another 40 or 50 years under like conditions. That single person is unelected, is one of only nine, can be confirmed by a bare and strictly partisan majority of the U.S. footnote1_9s7p4os 1 Professor Jamal Greene captured this development succinctly in testimony to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court: “A starkly different political and legal landscape in a nation of 330 million has the potential to turn on the views of a single person. Today’s Supreme Court has assumed a degree of power and importance that would have been unrecognizable in the founding era. Attend the Brennan Legacy Awards Dinner.Advance Constitutional Change Show / hide.National Task Force on Democracy Reform & the Rule of Law.Government Targeting of Minority Communities Show / hide.
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