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20 Dec 2018, 4:00 am by Administrator
This excerpt chronicles Donald’s journey to defend Mi’kmaw treaty rights in the Supreme Court of Canada and sets the stage for understanding the impacts of R. v. [read post]
19 Dec 2018, 9:21 am by Stephen Wermiel
Shortly before his death in 1826, President John Adams was quoted as saying, “My gift of John Marshall to the people of the United States was the proudest act of my life. [read post]
4 Dec 2018, 12:54 pm by Adam Feldman
Although in the years before Chief Justice John Marshall the federal judiciary was described in Federalist No. 78 as “beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power,” this characterization is much more debatable at the present. [read post]
3 Dec 2018, 10:30 am by Mark Walsh
When the court takes the bench at ten o’clock, Chief Justice John Roberts will supply the answer. [read post]
15 Nov 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Maryland, where the John Marshall Supreme Court in 1819 ruled, first, that Congress had the constitutional power to create and charter the Bank of the United States, and, second, that the State of Maryland could not impose a discriminatory tax on the federal bank. [read post]
1 Nov 2018, 5:00 pm by DONALD SCARINCI
Dissent in Harper v Virginia Board of Elections Justice John Marshall Harlan II authored a dissent, which was joined by Justice Potter Stewart. [read post]
30 Oct 2018, 8:00 am by Guest Blogger
Ever since, Americans have largely operated in the space made of this opposition, opting to see the Constitution either as static and fixed or as dynamic and changing—as Sandy Levinson celebrates John Marshall for doing in his famous opinion in McCullough v. [read post]
23 Oct 2018, 10:01 pm by Anthony Gaughan
While researching his book, Professor Paul found a letter that suggests Chief Justice John Marshall may have suborned perjury in the landmark case of Marbury v. [read post]
15 Oct 2018, 9:57 am by Stephen Wermiel
Madison, the 1803 decision written by Chief Justice John Marshall that forever elevated the role of the Supreme Court. [read post]
6 Aug 2018, 11:43 am by Anthony Gaughan
Supreme Court, a fraction of the time of major justices such as John Marshall (34 years), Stephen Field (34 years), Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (29 years), Hugo Black (34 years), William Brennan (34 years), and Antonin Scalia (30 years). [read post]
5 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
If neither the executive nor legislative branch of the federal government may unilaterally change the meaning of the Constitution, neither should the judiciary be able to do so.In identifying precedents to support this view, we pointed first to John Marshall’s fountainhead 1803 opinion in Marbury v. [read post]
26 Jul 2018, 8:58 am by Adam Feldman
Justices Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan lead in dissenting vote count, while Rehnquist voted in the majority in the most of these cases. [read post]
16 Jul 2018, 4:49 am by SHG
I, for one, am not surprised that Trump didn’t nominate the progeny of Thurgood Marshall, or William O. [read post]
3 Jul 2018, 9:56 am by Andrew Hamm
Bush nominated both David Souter and Clarence Thomas three days after the respective retirements by Justices William Brennan on July 20, 1990, and Thurgood Marshall on June 28, 1991. [read post]