TY  - CHAP
AB  - This chapter offers an explanation for the mixed record of the Supreme Court since the 1960s, and considers the implications of that record for the future. The chapter emphasizes that judicial power is connected to choices made by other political actors. We argue that conventional ways of measuring the impact of Court rulings and the Court's treatment of precedents are misleading. The Court cannot be understood as a counter-majoritarian protector of rights. In both past and future, electoral outcomes determine the policy areas in which the Court will be influential, and also the choices the justices make about how to portray their treatment of law and precedents.
VL  - 44
SN  - 978-0-7623-1486-7, 978-1-84950-562-8/1059-4337
DO  - 10.1016/S1059-4337(08)00801-6
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S1059-4337(08)00801-6
AU  - Lemieux Scott E.
AU  - Lovell George I.
ED  - Austin Sarat
PY  - 2008
Y1  - 2008/01/01
TI  - Understanding the impact and visibility of ideological change on the supreme court
T2  - Special Issue Constitutional Politics in a Conservative Era
T3  - Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 1
EP  - 33
Y2  - 2024/09/19
ER  -