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Thursday, April 13, 2023

Congress and Judicial Politics

In the news?  

For next Tuesday

  • Davidson, ch. 14, Thurber ch. 11.

For next week:  

  • What domestic topics do you want to discuss
  • Overall, any topics to revisit or add?
  • Topics for last paper?

Finishing last time: J6

Court-packing  (Davidson 367-368).

A check on the court:  jurisdiction-stripping, or court-stripping (Davidson 365-366 -- a 2020 article

Constitutional Amendments

Response to statutory (vs. constitutional) interpretation (Davidson p. 363)  Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and ADA

Supreme Court Nominations (see Thurber 171-178)

Clarence Thomas:




In hearings, senators try to get judicial nominees on the record.  NOTE WHAT ALITO SAYS (START AT 18:45) ABOUT STARE DECISIS.






Merrick Garland and "the Biden Rule" (Thurber,  p, 168)

Gorsuch and the nuclear option 

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