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People v. Presley
Loper Bright overrules a Reagan-era Supreme Court decision known as Chevron v. National Resources Defense Council (1984), which held that when a federal statute delegating policymaking authority to an agency is ambiguous, courts typically should defer to the agency’s reading of that statute rather than trying ... See more
PORTER v. BOWEN, Opinion of the Court
Indeed, I will argue that liberty in the broad sense requires judges and officials, when applying legal principles, to assert norms of reasonableness. Otherwise, self-interested people will use law to claim almost anything.
Philip K. Howard • Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society
Rob Walker
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After his landslide, Jefferson, in control of two branches of government, had turned his attention to the lone branch still dominated by the other party—the judiciary—moving, in the impeachment of Samuel Chase, to curb its independence. Now Roosevelt, too, moved against the judiciary’s independence. The Supreme Court had declared crucial New Deal m
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing the majority opinion on Romer v. Evans, declared that the amendment was inexplicable of anything but animosity to a class of people. It was both too narrow and too broad. It identified a person by a single trait, and then it denied that person protection across the board. “Amendment 2 classifies homosexuals not to f
... See moreLillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
AND FOR MANY YEARS the Senate made use of its great powers. It created much of the federal Judiciary—the Constitution established only the Supreme Court; it was left to Congress to “constitute tribunals inferior,” and it was a three-man Senate committee that wrote the Judiciary Act of 1789, an Act that has been called “almost an appendage to the Co
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