The Supreme Court rules.

From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Not so very long ago, defenders of judicial activism felt it necessary to justify how an unelected body of lifetime appointees could become the definitive voice of constitutional authority in a democratic society. One thinks, for example, of Professor Alexander Bickel of Yale Law School, who understood that judicial review as practiced by the Warren Court differed not only in degree, but in kind, from prior custom. That the modern Court wandered far and wide across the political landscape was, in Bickel's view, not only unprecedented but deeply troubling. The Court, he feared, had ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Judicial review shows its set of teeth
; ...cases in the Court of Session in...applications for judicial review. There has already...jurisdiction for judicial review matters in Scotland; in England, judicial review falls within...jurisdiction of the High Court. Judicial review forms part ...
THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT AND JUDICIAL REVIEW OF CONGRESS, 1803-2001
; ...evolution of the Court's exercise of judicial review across historical...descriptive study of the Court's exercise of judicial review. They discover a...full set of Supreme Court opinions involving judicial review of congressional...
Judicial review procedures to be made simpler
; ...procedures for judicial review - the increasingly...1977 changes to judicial review mechanisms as...applications for judicial review. Last year there...He said the judicial review procedure had...obtainable in the High Court against lower...The purpose of ...
Judicial review, the congressional process, and the federalism cases: an interdisciplinary critique.
; ...Branch: The Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics...countermajoritarian aspects of judicial review. (2) Much of the...operationalized judicial review in cases concerning...this respect, the Court has invited a new...the techniques of judicial review exercised in ...
Judging the next emergency: judicial review and individual rights in times of crisis.
; ...constitutional system. Judicial review on matters of national...individuals before the Court when the national-securi...judiciary because the Court failed to afford...Considered over time, judicial review of emergency and...strongest, defenses of judicial review is that ...
"Because We Are Final" Judicial Review Two Hundred Years After Marbury1
; ...means for the Court to be exercising...of muscular judicial review that we are...current Supreme Court's aggressive use of judicial review is, in fact...brought the Court back to using the power of judicial review to police the...
Supreme Court Says "No" to Contractual Expansion of FAA Judicial Review
; ...agreements and judicial review of arbitral awards, the Court's decision is noteworthy...against expanded judicial review of arbitral awards. Second, the Court expressed strong...time-consuming judicial review process." The Court sai
Judicial Review: Time for a Closer Look
; ...highest appellate court, while unusual...Chinese law-the judicial review of PRB decisions-a...are subject to judicial review. In most cases...Supreme People's Court. In practice, this...Supreme People's Court could be the first-instan...understand the judicial ...
Reject judicial review, A-G urges court
; ...2006 Reject judicial review, A-G urges court Byline: Julia...asked the High Court to reject the application for a judicial review of the decision...requirements and the court will see that...she said. "Judicial review is no substitute...
Supreme Court grants criminal immigrants judicial review.(The Dallas Morning News)
; ...s exclusion of judicial review was clear and constitutional...argued that the high court had no jurisdiction...also said the high court's decision subverts...delay-inducing judicial review than others have...requiring access to judicial review would ...