Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from cover (White House website, viewed January 5, 2022).
Contents
Letter to the President -- Preface -- Commission membership -- Executive summary -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the genesis of the reform debate and the Commission's mission -- Chapter 1: The history of reforms and reform debates -- Chapter 2: Membership and size of the Court -- Chapter 3: Term limits -- Chapter 4: The Court's role in the constitutional system -- Chapter 5: The Supreme Court's procedures and practices -- Appendix A: Executive Order 14023 -- Appendix B: Commission meetings, expert testimony, and public comment -- Appendix C: Confirmation process -- Appendix D: Advocacy before the Court -- Appendix E: Commission members.
Summary
"Executive Order 14023 established this Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court the United States. The Order directed the Commission to provide an account of the current debate over the "role and operation of the Supreme Court in our constitutional system" and an "analysis of the principal arguments in the contemporary public debate for and against Supreme Court reform, including an appraisal of the merits and legality of particular reform proposals."--Page 1.
