Litigation

Extreme Makeover Urged for Supreme Court

By Deanna Dawson

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As reported in today’s Washington Post, a group of legal scholars have penned a letter to Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Eric Holder, and the chairs and ranking minority members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, urging a series of reforms to the United States Supreme Court.

The letter claims that “excessive independence” of the judiciary has eroded public confidence:

“The increasing likeness of high courts to robed legislatures has, we believe, contributed to the growing unrest of citizens with the tradition and practice of judicial independence, an unrest to which Justices themselves point with concern. Congress and the Department of Justice should therefore attend to their duty to provide constructive ‘checks and balances’ to our highest Court to reassure the public that its great judicial power is being exercised with appropriate self-restraint and fidelity to law.”

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Full post as published by The Gavel on February 23, 2009 (boomark / email).