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The New York Times article from August 31, 2024 that gives rise to this discussion and analysis.

Virtually all lawyers and judges admitted to practice anywhere in the USA can obtain CLE (Continuing Legal Education) credit after listening to this episode by visiting podcast.njsba.com.  You do not have to be a New Jersey lawyer or resident or admitted to the NJ Bar; essentially every state has reciprocity arrangements with New Jersey.  When you visit the site you fill out a form and provide the code Andy read during the episode, pay a small fee, and within two weeks you will receive the certificate from New Jersey.  It couldn’t be easier.  Thanks to the New Jersey Bar Association for making this possible!  Note, too, that other podcast episodes from our “back catalog” now qualify for this credit as well.

James Madison is generally believed to be the author of this important but frequently overlooked Federalist paper with its themes on the size of the House of Representatives.  We included it in our last episode because of its thoughts on virtue; here, the subject of House size is directly relevant.

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Professor Amar writes in the Wall Street Journal in 2000, later reprinted in his book, The Constitution Today, on constitutional problems that lay within the gilded and in many ways treasured memory of the Kennedy Administration.

James Madison is generally believed to be the author of this important but frequently overlooked Federalist paper with its themes on the size of the House of Representatives, an issue which George Washington, among others, considered vital at the time.

Ruth Marcus’ piece in the Washington Post from August 13, 2024, detailing the many problematic provisions of Senator Schumer’s proposed bill.

Virtually all lawyers and judges admitted to practice anywhere in the USA can obtain CLE (Continuing Legal Education) credit after listening to this episode by visiting podcast.njsba.com.  You do not have to be a New Jersey lawyer or resident or admitted to the NJ Bar; essentially every state has reciprocity arrangements with New Jersey.  When you visit the site you fill out a form and provide the code Andy read during the episode, pay a small fee, and within two weeks you will receive the certificate from New Jersey.  It couldn’t be easier.  Thanks to the New Jersey Bar Association for making this possible!  Note, too, that other podcast episodes from our “back catalog” now qualify for this credit as well.

Virtually all lawyers and judges admitted to practice anywhere in the USA can obtain CLE (Continuing Legal Education) credit after listening to this episode by visiting podcast.njsba.com.  You do not have to be a New Jersey lawyer or resident or admitted to the NJ Bar; essentially every state has reciprocity arrangements with New Jersey.  When you visit the site you fill out a form and provide the code Andy read during the episode, pay a small fee, and within two weeks you will receive the certificate from New Jersey.  It couldn’t be easier.  Thanks to the New Jersey Bar Association for making this possible!  Note, too, that other podcast episodes from our “back catalog” now qualify for this credit as well.

This is the plan as presented by Professor Amar.  This was delivered as the Cato Simon Lecture at the Cato Institute.  The full title is Term Limits/Time Rules for Future Justices: Eighteen Arguments for Eighteen Years, in the Cato Supreme Court Review.

The House bill proposed by Rep. Khanna,  the ‘‘Supreme Court Term Limits and Regular Appointments Act of 2020,” which purports “[t]o establish a process by which the appointment of Supreme Court Justices
can occur at regular time intervals, and for other purposes.”

The text of the Senate bill, proposed by Senator Whitehouse, the ‘‘Supreme Court Biennial Appointments and Term Limits Act of 2023.’’

This short excerpt discusses circuit riding at the founding, and the Judiciary Act of 1789, one of the first statutes passed by Congress.

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Professor Amar gives the Cato Simon Lecture at the Cato Institute enumerating the various arguments for, and the details of, his plan, revised over the years, for “so-called term limits” for Supreme Court Justices.  The full title is Term Limits/Time Rules for Future Justices: Eighteen Arguments for Eighteen Years, in the Cato Supreme Court Review.

President Biden chose this occasion to present his plans for Court Reform at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, TX.  Here, the full text of these remarks.

The House bill proposed by Rep. Khanna,  the ‘‘Supreme Court Term Limits and Regular Appointments Act of 2020,” which purports “[t]o establish a process by which the appointment of Supreme Court Justices
can occur at regular time intervals, and for other purposes.”

The text of the Senate bill, proposed by Senator Whitehouse, the ‘‘Supreme Court Biennial Appointments and Term Limits Act of 2023.’’

Professor Amar wrote on the Original Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in this 1989 article from the University of Chicago Law Review.