Should the Supreme Court Be Reformed?

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🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Last spring, President Biden issued an executive order to form the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, a bipartisan commission charged with examining proposals for Supreme Court reform. The commission, made up of more than 30 of the nation’s leading legal scholars and experts on the judiciary, submitted a 294-page report to the president last week. Some of the proposals examined in the report include court expansion, term limits, and jurisdiction stripping, as well as the Court’s larger role in the constitutional system. Host Jeffrey Rosen is joined by two members of the commission: Tara Leigh Grove, professor at the University of Alabama School of Law, and Keith Whittington, professor of politics at Princeton University. They lay out the cases for and against each proposal, and discuss the complications involved in implementing any of them. The National Constitution Center relies on support from listeners like you to provide nonpartisan constitutional education to Americans of all ages. In honor of the 234th anniversary of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, every dollar you give to support the We the People podcast campaign will be doubled with a generous 1:1 match up to a total of $234,000, made possible by the John Templeton Foundation! Visit www.constitutioncenter.org/we-the-people to donate, and thank you for your crucial support. Questions or comments about the show? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org. Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly.

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1:01.0	Hello friends, I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National
1:04.9	Constitution Center and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of
1:08.6	constitutional debate. The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.
1:20.0	Last spring, President Biden issued an executive order to form the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States,
1:27.0	a bipartisan commission charged with examining proposals for Supreme Court reform.
1:32.0	The Commission submitted its report to the President. proposals for Supreme Court reform.
1:32.9	The Commission submitted its report to the President just last week.
1:37.0	Joining us to unpack that report and discuss proposals for reforming the Supreme Court are two of the distinguished legal
1:44.4	scholars who served on the Commission. Tara Lee Grove is the Charles E. Tweedy
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