Jesse Wegman
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281 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Jul
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The House of Representatives is technically majoritarian but with partisan gerrymandering kind of spiraling out of control now with the help of the Supreme Court.
We are finding that fewer and fewer people feel represented by that House of Congress.
So on every level of government, you have this sense that what a majority of the people want is not being reflected in their government.
And that I think Wilson understood that 250 years ago as being what he called a poison contaminating the government.
And that was why he fought so hard to make sure that there were mechanisms –
to ensure majority rule would be the way we governed.
Yeah, I mean every president chooses judges who are – they think will be ideologically aligned with them and that's understandable.
But at the same time, this interacts with this life tenure that the founders gave to Supreme Court – well, to all federal judges.
And this creates a problem because now you have people living far longer than they did at the founding …
people serving on the court like Clarence Thomas for 30-plus years.
He could go 40.
He could even go 50 years.
He's not even that old by the standards of Supreme Court justices.
And I think when you have presidents appointing justices who sit on the court that long, then you add on top of that presidents who were chosen by a minority of the population and
You have essentially minority rule in America where you have the judiciary representing political realities from decades before and sometimes not even a reality that was – that represented the majority of the people.
So I think you have a real problem with a court that is so unrepresentative politically.
You know, the court is not supposed to be democratically representative the way that the elected branches are.
But when it is so far removed, I think you start to run into serious problems of legitimacy.
Right.
Well, this has been suggested for a long time, but term limits for Supreme Court justices, I think, would go a long way to making people feel more like that the court was a democratically legitimate branch of government.
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