How Congress Can Take Back Its Power Over the Courts
Congress has the constitutional power to expand the lower courts, reshape the Supreme Court, limit its jurisdiction and restore checks on an increasingly powerful judiciary.
Lisa Needham
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Lisa Needham is an attorney who has worked in the areas of First Amendment, education, and labor law. She is a contributor to Rewire, where she writes about LGBTQ and reproductive-health legal issues, and Shareblue, where she writes about politics. She is ride or die for Dionne Warwick, Doris Day, and the Oxford comma.
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