Changing the Rules

Several commenters and Scott Lemieux have convinced me that contrary to what I said here it wouldn't require a constitutional amendment to impose some kind of supermajority requirement on Supreme Court decisions. UPDATE: Of course at the end of the day this would need to be litigated. In principle, the Court could vote 5-4 to strike the law down which would create awesome legal paradoxes.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/07/changing-the-rules/49035/