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It’s high time that a prominent nonlawyer take a turn at this critique of the Roberts court, and it’s clear that [Tim] Walz may succeed where all of us polite eggheads have failed. The Supreme Court supermajority represents a democracy crisis that needs to be discussed at barbecues and high school lunch tables, not just pondered in the stacks at Ivy League law schools. If Walz can initiate and embody that conversation over the next 90 days, in terms that chime with swing voters and undecideds, and in language that is playful and irreverent and goofy, it will be the best thing to happen to a Democratic Party that has avoided the topic of court reform for two decades too long.
— Dalia Lithwick, in opining in a Slate article on why Gov. Tim Walz, who was recently selected as Kamala Harris’s choice for vice president, represents the perfect person to go to bat for reforming the Supreme Court. Walz is the first nonlawyer on a Democratic White House ticket in more than 40 years, and the former social studies teacher seems to check all the right boxes when it comes to explaining to the public why court reform is needed in modern-day society.
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