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4 8. U.S. Supreme Court, Rules of the U.S. Supreme Court,
adopted April 19, 2013, effective July 1, 2013, Rule 28.7,
http://www.supremecourt.gov/ctrules/2013RulesoftheCourt.pdf
(accessed 5/27/16).- Savage, Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court, p. 852.
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5 1. Garrett Epps, “Clarence Thomas Breaks His Silence,” The
Atlantic, February 29, 2016, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/
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5 2. Quoted in Savage, Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court, p. 854.
5 3. Richard J. Lazarus, “Back to ‘Business’ at the Supreme Court:
The ‘Administrative Side’ of Chief Justice Roberts,” Harvard
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5 4. Michael A. McCall and Madhavi M. McCall, “Quantifying
the Contours of Power: Chief Justice Roberts & Justice
Kennedy in Criminal Justice Cases,” Pace Law Review 37:1
(2016): 115–74. - Smith v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944).
5 6. Walker and Epstein, Supreme Court, p. 110.
5 7. Linda Greenhouse, “Chief Justice Roberts in His Own Voice:
The Chief Justice’s Self-Assignment of Majority Opinions,”
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2013. - Savage, Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court, p. 854.
5 9. Lee Epstein, William M. Landes, and Richard A. Posner, “Are
Even Unanimous Decisions in the United States Supreme Court
Ideological?,” Northwestern University Law Review 106:2 (2012),
702.
6 0. SCOTUSblog, 2018.
6 1. In cases involving statutory interpretation, the language of the
law passed by Congress would be the starting point. The logic
of these various perspectives on constitutional interpretation
generally applies to statutory interpretation as well.
6 2. Quoted in Lee Epstein and Thomas G. Walker, Constitutional
Law for a Changing America: Institutional Powers and
Constraints, 5th ed. (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2004), p. 29. - Maryland v. Craig, 497 U.S. 836 (1990).
6 4. Epstein and Walker, Constitutional Law for a Changing
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6 5. Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel, Justice Brennan: Liberal
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6 6. Epstein, Segal, Spaeth, and Walker, Supreme Court
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6 7. Forrest Maltzman and Paul J. Wahlbeck, “Strategic Policy
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6 9. Robert Dahl, “Decision-Making in a Democracy: The Supreme
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(1957): 279–95, is the classic work on this topic. More recent
work has challenged Dahl’s methods but largely supports the
idea that the Court follows the will of the majority.
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7 2. Thomas R. Marshall, Public Opinion and the Supreme Court
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7 3. Matthew E. K. Hall, “The Semiconstrained Court: Public
Opinion, the Separation of Powers, and the U.S. Supreme
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The Nature of Supreme Court Power (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2011).(^) 74. Stanford v. Kentucky, 492 U.S. 361 (1989); Roper v. Simmons, 543
U.S. 551 (2005).
7 5. David O’Brien, Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American
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7 6. Helmut Norpoth and Jeffrey A. Segal, “Popular Influence in
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7 7. Thomas M. Keck, The Most Activist Supreme Court in History:
The Road to Modern Judicial Conservatism (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 2004).
- Marshall, Public Opinion, Table 6-8.
7 9. Jeffrey Rosen, “Has the Supreme Court Gone Too Far?,”
Commentary 116:3 (October 2003), pp. 41–2. - National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 567 U.S.
(2012).
8 1. Abby Phillip, Robert Barnes, and Ed O’Keefe, “Supreme
Court Nominee Gorsuch Says Trump’s Attacks on
Judiciary Are ‘Demoralizing,’” Washington Post,
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8 2. Foster v. Neilson, 27 U.S. 253 (1829). - Charles B. Rangel v. John A. Boehner, United States District
Court for the District of Columbia, Civil Action No. 13-540,
December 11, 2013, p. 48, https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/
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8 4. We thank Dan Smith for raising this point.
Take a Stand
a. Martin Kady, “Justice Alito Mouths ‘Not True’,”
POLITICO, January 27, 2010, http://www.politico.com/blogs/
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b. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/
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