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Overconfidence Is Killing The Supreme Court

Overconfidence Is Killing The Supreme Court

Partisanship isn’t the problem.

Hear Me Out · Celeste Headlee

September 5, 202336m 27s

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Show Notes

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… supreme hubris.


The Supreme Court is currently unpopular to a historic degree. That popularity is, of course, contingent on political opinion – and whether the court has bucked it recently. But most people agree that something’s wrong with the Supreme Court as an institution.


And, according to Aaron Tang, it’s not partisanship… even though that’s a popular scapegoat. It’s overconfidence and egos running wild.


Professor and author Aaron Tang joins us to discuss what’s wrong with SCOTUS, and how we might start to fix it.


If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show: [email protected]


Podcast production by Maura Currie


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