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Which sets the stage for a paper by @ryandoerfler.bsky.social@samuelmoyn.bsky.socialwww.californialawreview.org/print/democr...

Democratizing the Supreme Court — California Law Review
Democratizing the Supreme Court — California Law Review

Progressives are taking Supreme Court reform seriously for the first time in almost a century. Owing to the rise of the political and academic left following the 2008 financial crisis and the hotly ...

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Seeing SCOTUS as anti-democratic isn't some new radical POV, Bowie shows. It was expressed by Alexis de Tocqueville in his classic “Democracy in America,” writing “American aristocracy is at the lawyers’ bar and on the judges’ bench”: 10/28

Bowie makes clear that seeing the Supreme Court as a threat to democracy isn’t some wild new radical perspective. It can be found in Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America,” where he declares that the “American aristocracy is at the lawyers’ bar and on the judges’ bench,” as reflected in the legal establishment's attitudes and its tension with American society as a whole. Bowie continues: “The more you think about what happens in the United States,” Tocqueville continued, “the more you feel persuaded that in this country the body of jurists forms the most powerful and, so to speak, the sole counterweight of democracy.” Even though all literate Americans could read and understand their Constitution, American judges treated the document as inscrutable to all but themselves. Like “the priests of Egypt,” they considered themselves “the sole interpreter of an occult science.”
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