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The Supreme Court in the American Constitutional Order

The Supreme Court in the American Constitutional Order
The Supreme Court in Washington on Sept. 21, 2020. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
Matthew J. Franck
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Commentary

This spring, President Biden appointed a 35-member Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, charged with soliciting expert views, deliberating among themselves, and reporting back to him on the subject of “reforming” the nation’s highest court. The commission’s members are themselves mostly eminent scholars of the Court’s work, preponderantly but by no means exclusively liberal ones. In their two public meetings so far (via Zoom), the members have taken written and oral testimony from 45 witnesses—also various eminences of the bar and the professoriate, and also mostly liberals.

Matthew J. Franck
Matthew J. Franck
Author
Matthew J. Franck is a lecturer in politics at Princeton University, senior fellow at the Witherspoon Institute, contributing editor of Public Discourse, and professor emeritus of political science at Radford University. He is the author of "Against the Imperial Judiciary" (University Press of Kansas, 1996) and editor of or contributor to books published by Lexington Books, Oxford University Press, and Cambridge University Press. His essays and reviews have been published in numerous publications.
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