This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, October 21st, 2021.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Ideas about how to fix the Supreme Court very widely from term limits to expanding the size of the court.

Does the Supreme Court even need fixing?

At the Cato Club event held earlier this month, Cato's Ilia Shapiro offered some lessons for thinking about the High Court.

Well the Supreme Court begins its new term next week and you're hearing a lot as

Sally mentioned about how the court needs to be reformed in various ways to maintain its legitimacy.

Term limits, adding justices for political reasons, court packing, and more technical proposals

have been bandied about.

There's even a presidential commission,

as I said, as Sally said, at which I testified this summer,

with a report due out right before Thanksgiving.

So right after you have your turkey,

I'm sure that report will help you have a nap.

But it's not at all clear that the court needs fixing.

Last term was supposed to be a coming out party

for the new six to three hyper

conservative court but was marked largely by surprising unanimity and never

before seen alignments of justices. Yet the last few years have shown that the court

is now covered by the same toxic cloud that's enveloped the rest of our public discourse.

Although it's still respected than most institutions, it's

increasingly viewed through a political lens. Given the controversy over the last

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