Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court-and How We Can Fix It

How to repair the dysfunction at the Supreme Court in a way that cuts across partisan ideologies

The Supreme Court, once the most respected institution in American government, is now routinely criticized for rendering decisions based on the individual justices’ partisan leanings rather than on a faithful reading of the law. For legal scholar Aaron Tang, however, partisanship is not the Court’s root problem. Overconfidence is.

Conservative and liberal justices alike have adopted a tone of ...