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506 Chapter 14Chapter 14 || The CourtsThe Courts Although the increase in workload is not as significant as it appears due to th ...

Access to the Supreme Court 507 the Court has original jurisdiction in cases involving a foreign ambassador or foreign countries ...

508 Chapter 14Chapter 14 || The CourtsThe Courts is called, reasonably enough, the Rule of Four). This process may sound simple, ...

Access to the Supreme Court 509 implications. The “political question doctrine” is another basis upon which the Court may decide ...

510 Chapter 14Chapter 14 || The CourtsThe Courts general or someone else from that office will represent the government in court ...

Hearing cases before the Supreme Court 511 be heard.^45 Given the limited information that justices have about any given case, i ...

512 Chapter 14Chapter 14 || The CourtsThe Courts left on the clock. We found only two instances in which a justice cut someone o ...

Hearing cases before the Supreme Court 513 law when he was in private practice. This experience played a role in Chief Justice B ...

514 Chapter 14Chapter 14 || The CourtsThe Courts to 39 percent in the 2017–2018 term.^60 Second, dissents serve an important pur ...

Supreme Court decision making 515 of the Court recognize that both legal and political factors are important in explaining judic ...

516 Chapter 14Chapter 14 || The CourtsThe Courts strongest protection of the First Amendment. So much for “without deviation, wi ...

Supreme Court decision making 517 the document was written, we certainly could be legally frozen in time. The option of amending ...

518 WHAT DO THE FACTS S AY? The Shifting Ideological Balance of the Court After Justice Antonin Scalia died in early 2016, the o ...

Supreme Court decision making 519 calculations about the preferences of the other justices, the president, and Congress; the cho ...

520 Chapter 14Chapter 14 || The CourtsThe Courts mood” and Court opinions correlated very highly between 1956 and 1981, but thei ...

The role of the Court in our political system 521 The Role of the Court in Our Political System We conclude with the topic addre ...

522 Chapter 14Chapter 14 || The CourtsThe Courts The term “activist judges” often appears in the media. Sometimes the media mist ...

The role of the Court in our political system 523 Resistance from the Other Branches The president and Congress often fight back ...

524 Chapter 14 | The Courts The Independence of the Courts Many presidents have been frustrated by federal court decisions that ...

The role of the Court in our political system 525 The judicial branch as a whole contains a basic paradox: it may be simultaneou ...