In Day VII of The Doctrine of Constitutional Temporal Continuity, Nicolin Decker examines the Recalibration Frequency Problem—the structural danger that arises when the Supreme Court, as the apex judicial interpretive layer, is recomposed so frequently, or appears so closely synchronized with political turnover, that constitutional meaning begins to look like a recurring product of political succession rather than durable law.

The episode asks a central question:

What happens when constitutional adjudication begins to move at approximately the same tempo as ordinary political change?

🔹 Core Insight

The problem is not judicial turnover itself.

Article III does not create institutional immortality. Justices retire, resign, die, and vacancies are filled throug ...