The U.S. Supreme Court is notorious, i think, the right word, for combining lifetime tenure with no retirement and an incredibly small number of justices. So there's a way in which you can have a court packing story that's about return to normalcy. The only kind of equivalent is iltole comeni. And we don't really have other examples of jurists that have this kind of authority.
A timely interview from the archives: legal scholars Aziz Rana and Amna Akbar, and Movement for Black Lives lawyer Marbre Stahly-Butts, on SCOTUS, liberal court veneration, and other big questions on the law and politics facing the left.
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