Current Affairs

Jubilee Day 3: Samuel Moyn on democratizing the Supreme Court


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With the Supreme Court very much in the news cycle, Oren speaks to Yale professor of law and history, Samuel Moyn, about why we should not "pack the court", as many leftists call for, but instead end the court as we know it.
scotusreform.com
Articles by Moyn:
https://newrepublic.com/article/159710/supreme-court-reform-court-packing-diminish-power
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-case-for-ending-the-supreme-court-as-we-know-it
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/reform-the-court-but-dont-pack-it/614986/
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/09/supreme-court-socialists-ruth-bader-ginsburg-death
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665032
This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.
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