According to research, public trust in the Supreme Court is near a three-decade low. Most Americans, across party lines, still say justices shouldn't let politics shape their rulings, and most also believe, increasingly, that they do.
Our partners at Cambridge Forum will host Rachel A. Shelden, author of “The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History,” who studies how the Court actually operated in its first century, long before the modern ideal of judicial neutrality took hold. She will sit down with Peter S. Canellos, who has spent his time tracing how Justice Alito’s life story became constitutional doctrine. Together they'll discuss the questions at the center of this moment and why the Supreme Court has become political.
Political scholar and commentator Kent Greenfield will moderate the discussion.
