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Supreme Court Term Limits: Rethinking Life Tenure on a Divided Court
June 27, 2024 | 12:30 p.m. | Washington, DC

As high levels of partisan polarization and decreasing public trust have come to characterize the American political landscape, the Supreme Court has also become increasingly controversial, with Americans’ views of its legitimacy starkly divided along ideological lines. At the same time, Justices today live far longer—and thus serve far longer—than the Framers are likely to have imagined, raising the stakes of the confirmation process as new nominations to the Court become rarer and more consequential.
In this context, increasing numbers of experts and ordinary Americans are now calling for limited terms for Supreme Court Justices. But how would this reform work? Would it be constitutional? And how would it impact the Court, the Senate, and our nation?
This luncheon event will bring together a diverse, bipartisan group of experts, including members of the U.S. Supreme Court Working Group ([link removed]) of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, for a lively discussion of all sides of this proposed reform.

Featuring
Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Senior Opinion Writer, The Boston Globe
Sarah Binder, Professor of Political Science, George Washington University, and Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings Institution
Stephen McAllister, E.S. & Tom W. Hampton Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law, and former U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas
Diane Wood, Director, American Law Institute; Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago Law School; and Judge (ret), United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Event Date: Thursday, June 27, 2024
Please register to attend by June 24, 2024.
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Top of the Hill Conference and Banquet Center
Reserve Officers Association of America Building
Minuteman Ballroom
1 Constitution Ave. NE

Washington, DC

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