Supreme Court: Ready for Reform?
The Supreme Court is mired in controversy. Public support has collapsed to the lowest level ever recorded in polls. One key reason: unfolding ethics scandals involving undisclosed gifts and dark money groups. Another: hard-right rulings from the Court’s supermajority on landmark cases regarding abortion rights, guns, and affirmative action. Americans deserve a fair and independent judiciary. Is it time to reform the Court? And what can the public, the media, and Congress do to bring accountability to this institution?
Check out the virtual premiere of a previously recorded conversation with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), featuring a live YouTube chat with Brennan Center President Michael Waldman.
Whitehouse is author of The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court. As a leader on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Whitehouse has unique insights into these issues. Waldman isauthor of The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America and member of the Biden administration’s 2021 Presidential Commission on the U.S. Supreme Court.
The two discuss important proposals for term limits and ethics reform with Kenji Yoshino, the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU School of Law.
Produced in partnership with the NYU John Brademas Center
Speakers:
- Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. Senator (D-RI); Author, The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court
- Michael Waldman, President, Brennan Center for Justice; Author, The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America
- Moderator: Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU School of Law