#Bestof2021: 2/2: #ClassicRichardEpstein: Court-Packing stays in the picture. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst
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🗓️ 24 November 2023
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https://www.hoover.org/research/supreme-court-commission-comes-through
Richard A Epstein, @RichardAEpstein Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow; Hoover Institution; senior lecturer, University of Chicago Law School.
1932 FDR
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| 0:00.0 | on BBC I player. This is Janet and Samuel. |
| 0:03.4 | I've gambled away my entire life savings. |
| 0:05.3 | Everything I thought I had. It's all nothing. |
| 0:07.6 | They'd hit rock bottom. Then one day a boat washed up full of contraband. |
| 0:12.8 | I know someone who would give us a lot of money for this. |
| 0:15.4 | Now there's a sharp-suited gangster after them. |
| 0:17.8 | You must be the tailor? |
| 0:19.2 | I would come for you. |
| 0:20.4 | They'll need to lose him or lose their lives. |
| 0:23.0 | What we're going to do? |
| 0:24.0 | Two strangers, one boat, nothing to lose. |
| 0:27.0 | Boat story. |
| 0:28.0 | Watch on BBC I Player. Yeah. institution writing and defining ideas after the report by the |
| 0:46.2 | Commission charged by the President of the United States to examine |
| 0:49.7 | complaints about the Supreme Court now constituted nine members and said to be six to three |
| 0:57.0 | in favor of the Conservatives. So that is a moving number and I will say generally it's complicated. We come now to reforms that are in proportion to some of the complaints about the courts these many years by either side by all sides. |
| 1:12.0 | Richard, you focus this on the matter of the term |
| 1:15.2 | that a justice serves. Right now it's for life and you tell me the average age |
| 1:21.6 | for that for life is 30 years. What is to be done, Richard? |
| 1:25.6 | Well, if you look to every other court around the world, it turns out that nobody |
| 1:30.3 | gets life tenure anymore. People have realized that it's just too long a term, you need |
| 1:35.7 | some rotation in office, you're worried about people becoming genuinely senile or loosing |
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