The Legislative Path to Supreme Court Reform
Fifty-four percent of Americans now have an unfavorable view of the Supreme Court. Life tenure, as it operates today, has raised the stakes of each new Supreme Court nomination, leading to a wide range of undesirable outcomes.
A new publication from the bipartisan U.S. Supreme Court Working Group of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences sets out a possible path toward reform. The Case for Supreme Court Term Limits examines how 18-year term limits for Supreme Court justices could be enacted without the need for a Constitutional amendment.
Join the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences for a discussion about the new publication, the possibility of establishing Supreme Court term limits, and the role the U.S. Senate might play in enacting such a reform.
The esteemed panelists will be Akhil Reed Amar (Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University); Charles Fried (Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard Law School); and Judge Patti Saris (United States District Court, District of Massachusetts).
Wednesday, Oct. 25
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Reception to begin at 6:00 p.m.; Program to begin at 7 p.m.
Edward M. Kennedy Institute
Columbia Point, Boston
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