How to Rebalance the Court
As Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Senate confirmation hearing comes to a close today, the Supreme Court’s role in our economy and democracy has come to the fore: An unrepresentative majority has tipped the scales in favor of corporations and against racial justice.
As Roosevelt’s Shahrzad Shams writes in The Week, the court’s decisions over the past few decades “have actively served to dismantle the legal architecture of racial and economic progress”—including weakening voting rights, worker protections, women’s rights to bodily autonomy, and environmental protections.
To solve that problem, we must both ensure the court looks more like the country, and address the institution’s structural flaws, which create and perpetuate such imbalances throughout our society.
Learn more in “Off-Balance: Five Strategies for a Judiciary that Supports Democracy,” by Roosevelt’s Todd N. Tucker.
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