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A majority of the Court's members are now prepared to risk its institutional legitimacy by overturning precedents and altering legal doctrines that would have remained in place…
With Florida holding a similar referendum this year, the abortion rights issue underscores the important role now played by referendums in states where one party has control of…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB286424
ISSN: 2633-304X
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A new justice has the potential to change the tenor of the Supreme Court's rulings significantly for many years to come, on issues including the scope of federal regulation…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB208470
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Although public confidence in the Court is falling, there is little chance that Congress will impose any structural changes, or even a code of conduct. Further conservative…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB280681
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President Donald Trump nominated Gorsuch to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death last year. Congressional Republicans blocked former President…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB217794
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Once considered the means by which US states could act as ‘laboratories of democracy’ that find new ways to improve governance, the recent construction of federalism as…