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Neil Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate as Supreme Court Justice on April 7 2017.
Proponents of reform should be clear that this is why they object
J. Patrick White wrote 'The Warren Court Under Attack: The Role of the Judiciary in a Democratic Society' in 19 Md. L. Rev. 181 1959.
Talking in circles about neutral principles is pointless if disagreement is about values
Getting down to real issue can yield several benefits
Airing equities can create feeling of fairness and being heard
What matters about today’s Court is more than how many Justices sit on it
Anticanonical cases denied citizenship to Black people
Court can issue decisions whose rejection is essential to nation’s constitutional identity
Current crisis of faith in Court could come from duty to ethical commitments
Opposition to Court’s recent rulings is far from unanimous
Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the U.S. released a Final Report in 2021.
U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary has a page on Supreme Court Ethics Reform.
Richard H. Fallon Jr wrote 'Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court' in 2018.
Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford had a hearing on September 27 2018.
Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation was a triumph for conservatives but a blow to the Court’s image on October 6 2018.
Such rulings presage harmful outcomes on issues ranging from contraception to same-sex marriage to immigration to climate change
The Court is simply broken
The Court has already wiped out the federal constitutional right to abortion
The Court’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health also effectively serves as an invitation for states and plaintiffs to pursue litigation to rewrite constitutional law in this country in the interests of white supremacy sexism and misogyny
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