Good morning and welcome to Supreme Court Brief! The justices' "long conference" is just a week away—Sept. 28—and marks the unofficial end of summer for court watchers. Constitution Day was just four days ago and to celebrate that occasion, the National Constitution Center revealed the results of its virtual constitutional convention during which three ideologically different teams of law professors met and proposed amendments. We have the details of their surprising consensus. We also take a look at a petition involving the recusal standard for judges. And scroll down for a Mississippi judge's "blistering" dissent in a voting rights case that could trigger SCOTUS' interest.

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Amending the Constitution

The late Justice Antonin Scalia once told an audience that if he could amend the Constitution, he would amend it to make it easier to amend. The late Justice John Paul  Stevens was more ambitious. Stevens proposed six amendments in his 2014 book, "Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution."

This past summer, the National Constitution Center convened a virtual constitutional convention in which three teams of primarily law professors—team conservative, team libertarian, team progressive—met to debate, draft and propose amendments where they could find consensus.