CBH Talk | Michael Waldman and Jesse Wegman on the Supreme Court
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What happens when the highest court in the land no longer represents the country at large? Among the experts sounding the alarm over the Supreme Court’s hard swerve to the right is Michael Waldman, president and CEO of the Brennan Center. Waldman served on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court, convened by President Biden in 2021, which analyzed various reforms to the Court including expanding the number of justices and instituting term limits. In his recent book, The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America, he outlines the unsettling ramifications of our current trajectory. Waldman shares his expert views in a conversation led by Jesse Wegman, New York Times’ editorial board member and another leading expert on our democracy. Wegman regularly pens opinions about the state of our government institutions and is the author of Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College. Join us for an animated discussion of the dangers that lurk when the nation’s scales of justice teeter at the highest level.
Participants
Michael Waldman is president and CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. The Brennan Center is a nonpartisan law and policy institute that works to strengthen the systems of democracy and justice so they work for all Americans. The Center is a leading national voice on voting rights, money in politics, criminal justice reform, and constitutional law. Waldman has led the Center since 2005. He is the author of The Fight to Vote, a history of the struggle to win voting rights for all citizens, The Second Amendment: A Biography, and five other books. Waldman served as director of speechwriting for President Bill Clinton from 1995-1999, and special assistant to the president for policy coordination from 1993-1995. He was responsible for writing or editing nearly two thousand speeches, including four State of the Union and two inaugural addresses.
Jesse Wegman is a member of The New York Times Editorial Board, where he has written about the Supreme Court, electoral reforms, the rule of law and democracy since 2013. He is the author of Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College and a forthcoming biography of James Wilson, the most democratic of the founding fathers.
