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A Case for Limiting the Time and Term of Supreme Court Justices

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Constitutional Reforms - What You Can't Do by a Statute

Congressional statute purporting to restructure the court's decision making by forbidding the court to strike down federal legislation would be a bad idea, he says. A law that gave a jurist brandishing a mere constitutional law a weightier vote than a dueling jurist wheeling the Constitution would improperly invert the clear prioritization of legal norms established by the Article VI supremacy clause. The proposal is deeply respectful of the constitutional principle of judicial independence.

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