The Supreme Court Has Gone Off the Rails. There’s Actually a Fix. We Just Have to Go Through With It.

Jurisprudence

July 20, 20265:30 AM

Illustration by Slate. Photos by Getty Images Plus.

This is part of Amicus and Slate’s “By the People” series, which explores how the American people can reclaim the Constitution—and the law—from this monarchical Supreme Court.

It has often occurred to me that if you were a visiting alien—or even, say, a visiting Norwegian—it might strike you as profoundly odd that many, if not most, Americans now mark the close of the Supreme Court term in the last two weeks of June by feeling abject horror that an unelected, life-tenured juristocracy has yet again made it harder to be a free, equal, and independent American. And then that same country immediately turns around on July Fourth and fetes itself as the best, freest democracy in the world.