I have the new Courts Law essay, reviewing Eric Segall’s Eight Justices Are Enough: A Proposal to Improve the United States Supreme Court, which proposes codifying the current eight-Justice/even partisan divide on the Court.
We moved up publication on this piece to time it with the Gorsuch nomination, which either spells the death knell for the proposal or gives it life. I remain unsure whether I am sold on Segall’s plan as a normatively best design or whether it just looks good compared with the political alternative. But it has some genuine merit. Iwill have more to say in a second post.
Posted by Howard Wasserman on February 3, 2017 at 09:04 AM