Episodes

While the appointment of a special master in the case involving ex-president Donald Trump's handling of classified documents raised eyebrows, the use of special masters in federal cases at large has risen 300% in the past 20 years and is the symptom of a much larger problem in the courts. In this...

Polling shows over 60% of Americans support term limits for Supreme Court justices, a number that includes a large percentage of conservative-leaning independents who are presumably happy with the court's 6-3 conservative majority. To find out why, I invited Arjun Moorthy from The Factual to...

Americans expect the Supreme Court to be nonpartisan, but history tells us this wasn't always the case. Rachel Shelden of Penn State joins me on this episode of YDHTY to discuss the Supreme Court of the Civil War Era, where Americans expected their courts to be partisan, partisanship to be fluid,...

In last week's episode of YDHTY, term limits for Supreme Court Justices were discussed as one reform that could make the Court more representative of the population they serve. The argument goes that if Supreme Court Justices served terms of 18 years, each president would get to appoint two...

Earlier this year, President Biden signed an executive order enacting a commission to explore potential reforms to the Supreme Court. Much of their discussion has focused on ways to make the partisan makeup of the Court more representative of the electorate at large - whether that be through term...