Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Congress and the Judiciary

For Thursday, watch:

Watch Santos expulsion and Menendez resignation

Read Menendez indictment


Court-packing  (Davidson 347-348).

A check on the court:  jurisdiction-stripping, or court-stripping (Davidson 344-345 -- a 2020 article)

Constitutional Amendments: 




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

Supreme Court Nominations (355-356)

Fortas roll call

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" 

Gorsuch and the nuclear option 

KBJ




Blue Slips and Senatorial Courtesy (Davidson, 357)



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