Jesse Wegman
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281 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Jul
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So the most popular proposal out there is 18-year terms.
So on a nine-member Supreme Court, that would mean that every two years,
a new vacancy would open up and every president would, by definition, get two appointments to the Supreme Court per term.
The justices who finish their 18-year term would be allowed to stay on as senior justices, which is the system we have now in the lower federal courts of appeals.
But I think it would make a really big difference in giving people the sense that there wouldn't be this unpredictability, this sort of unfairness where one president gets four picks to the court and the next one gets zero.
We want a Supreme Court that basically reflects the country as it is today, not as it was decades ago.
I mean it's – I think the founders faced this same question.
There was a real concern that most people would not understand politics, were not educated enough.
At that time, they were largely right.
And I'm not going to stand here and say I think social media is an unalloyed good.
But I do think we also live in this moment of incredible explosion of good writing and thoughtful commentary on the constitution, on democracy, on the way that we can live together as a people, an incredibly large and diverse country.
When the founders built this country, they were trying to do something that had never been done before, which was to design a republic that
you know, over an expanse that was larger than any that had been tried in the past.
And I think we're still in some way trying to do that.
We're trying to keep a government running that is far larger and more diverse than anyone could have imagined.
And I mean, I'm actually, when I read other writers and other thinkers, not just legal scholars, but regular people talking about what they want and what they imagine for the country, I'm actually quite invigorated by it.
I think most people want
a country in which their voice is heard, in which the majority gets its way, in which there are protections for minorities that are generally, you know, applied by the courts, but that majority rule and political equality are the fundamental guiding lights of our system.
And I think, you know, in this moment, we actually have more people more thoughtfully and more critically talking about these things than we've had in my lifetime.
Thanks so much for having me.
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