Today on the argument, is it time to reform the Supreme Court?

Ever since Senate Republicans blocked Mayor Garland's Supreme Court nomination in 2016,

there has been a lot of conversation about whether the nation's highest court is becoming

two partisan in favor of conservatives, or even what that would mean for the court to become

two partisan. Right now, the court's approval rating is sitting at a two-decade low. Granted,

I'm not sure how much I want the Supreme Court of the United States to be thinking about

their polling, because what would they do about it? And with big cases in front of the

justices right now, like the one that would overturn Roe vs. Wade, a lot of liberals are

asking if the time has come to take more drastic steps to rebalance the Supreme Court. Even

President Biden is waiting into the court reform waters. Last year, he formed a bipartisan

commission to take a look at some of the proposals, like Court expansion, also known as court

packing. You might remember that from APU's history. Or setting term limits so the justices

don't stay on the bench forever, or requiring the justices to abide by ethics rules, because

fun fact, right now they don't have any. But the big question for that commission, and

for me, then for a lot of people, is once you start reforming the Supreme Court, where

do you stop? I'm Jane Kostin, and honestly, I don't have a strong opinion on whether

Major Court reform is a good idea or not. So I want my guests today to try and convince

me. They come down on very different sides of this question. But there's one big and

possibly confusing thing they do agree on. Very enjoyable that both of us are named

Russ, even though we take different views. That was actually something I wanted to clear

up. How do you want me to differentiate between the two of you? Is it okay if I just call

you your full names each time? Sure, yeah, that would be fine.

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