Season 2, Episode 32 (Show 84): Time is Now

August 3, 2022

Akhil is in the news, making news, and “unpacking” the news on the Court.  We look back 23 years and ahead 18.

Events continue to unfold, causing us to look back, forward, inward, and outward.  A new bill is introduced which takes us back 20 years and ahead 18 years.  Professor Amar conducts an unprecedented interview – maybe we shouldn’t use that term – and you are there.  A moot court from 23 years ago reappears in the present.  And lessons from nearly 250 years ago will unfold in the next year – and affect us forever.  Professor Amar unwraps this scroll.

Show Notes:

Proposed House Bill on 18 Years

House Bill introduced by Representative Hank Johnson of Georgia which attempts to impose an 18 year limit on active service of Supreme Court Justices.

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Testimony of Professor Amar on 18 Years

Akhil Reed Amar, Testimony Before the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States July 20, 2021, in support of a Congressional Statute Establishing an Eighteen-Year Limit on Active Supreme Court Service, With Emeritus Status Thereafter and a Purely Prospective Phase- In.

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Mitchell v. Helms - Moot Court - 1999

Professor Amar serves as a Justice in this 1999 C-Span broadcast of a moot court on the Mitchell v. Helms case.  Advocates include Professors Chemerinsky and Sherry.  Clips from this event are played an analyzed in this week’s podcast.

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