Donald Ayer’s Interview with the Brennan Center

Society for the Rule of Law Board Member Donald Ayer was interviewed by the Brennan Center on Supreme Court reform.

Talking about the Supreme Court is difficult for me, because we all want it to be okay, and increasingly I worry that it really is not okay. The court is moving too fast toward a vision of the country that six of them seem mostly to share, but which departs materially from key principles that the Court has formulated in the past, by processes of reflection and deliberation that made sense at the time. And it has done so often by simply dismissing and overruling precedents, but as often by ignoring them and mischaracterizing what is going on.

Read the full interview here.