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 # Id.
 * 1) Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States 3 (July 20, 2021) (written testimony of Curt Levey, President, Comm. for Just.), https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Levey-testimony.pdf.
 * 2) Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States 3 (July 20, 2021) (written testimony of Jeffrey J. Peck) https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Peck-Testimony.pdf.
 * 3) The Democratic vote count includes independents who caucus with the Senate Democrats.
 * 4) Peter Overby, Kavanaugh Nomination Battle Is Fought with Millions in Secret Cash,  (Oct. 4, 2018, 5:00 AM), https://www.npr.org/2018/10/04/654187465/kavanaugh-nomination-battle-is-fought-with-millions-in-secret-cash; Jordan Fabian, Trump-Allied Groups Pour $30 Million into Barrett Confirmation,  (Oct. 22, 2020, 4:00 AM), https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-22/trump-allied-groups-pour-30-million-into-barrett-confirmation.
 * 5) Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States 2 (June 30, 2021) (written testimony of Noah Feldman, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School) https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Feldman-Presidential-Commission-6-25-21.pdf.
 * 6) Carl Hulse, McConnell Suggests He Would Block a Biden Nominee for the Supreme Court in 2024,  (June 14, 2021), https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/us/politics/mcconnell-biden-supreme-court.html.
 * 7) Senator Charles Schumer, Remarks at the American Constitution Society (July 27, 2007), https://www.acslaw.org/expertforum/text-of-senator-schumers-speech/.
 * 8) Id.
 * 9) See, e.g., Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States (Aug. 26, 2021) (written testimony of David D. Cole, National Legal Director, ACLU), https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ACLU.pdf (describing the federal judiciary as “the primary guarantor of the Bill of Rights”); Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States (July 26, 2021) (written testimony of Federal Capital Habeas Project), https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Federal-Capital-Habeas-Project.pdf (describing the Court’s crucial role in death penalty cases).
 * 10) Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States 2 (June 30, 2021) (written testimony of Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Princeton University), https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Scheppele-Written-Testimony.pdf. Some commentators have suggested that, as a practical matter, the infrequency of constitutional amendments may in part be a function of the Court’s willingness to interpret the Constitution in ways that, from an originalist perspective, amount to amending the Constitution informally. See, e.g., John O. McGinnis & Mike Rappaport, Where Have all the Amendments Gone?,  (Nov. 1, 2021), https://lawliberty.org/forum/where-have-all-the-amendments-gone/.
 * 11) Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States 2 (July 5, 2021) (appendix to written testimony of Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Princeton University), https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Scheppele-Followup-response.pdf.
 * 12) Neal Devins & Lawrence Baum, The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court 149 (2019).
 * 13) Donald Alexander Downs, Supreme Court Nominations at the Bar of Political Conflict: The Strange and Uncertain Career of the Liberal Consensus in Law, 46  540, 542 (2021) (discussing, supra ).
 * 14) See Alan I. Abramowitz & Kyle L. Saunders, Is Polarization a Myth?, 70  545 (2008);,  (2009); Joseph Bafumi & Robert Y. Shapiro, A New Partisan Voter, 71  1 (2009).