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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]
5 Jun 2015, 9:33 am
It is simply a pernicious myth that John Marshall invented the power of judges to nullify unconstitutional laws (which he never called a “power of judicial review”). [read post]
15 Aug 2012, 7:25 am by Floyd Abrams
Madison (1803), no less, because Chief Justice John Marshall had “begged the question-in-chief” of “who should be empowered to decide” if an act of Congress was unconstitutional. [read post]
13 Sep 2016, 8:13 am by Marci Hamilton
The dissent was composed of the liberals on the Court: Harry Blackmun, William Brennan, and Thurgood Marshall. [read post]
3 Mar 2012, 3:18 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
  If a donor’s intent is violated, said donor will leave, such as when William Simon – former Secretary of the Treasury and then-president of the John M. [read post]
15 Feb 2018, 11:59 am by Andrew Hamm
To understand Chief Justice John Marshall, he explained, one needs to know that Marshall’s interest in a strong national government was shaped in part by fighting for American independence alongside General George Washington at Valley Forge. [read post]
5 Oct 2020, 6:43 am by Jeffrey Kirchmeier
Justices Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan rejected the return of the death penalty in the 1970s by reasoning that capital punishment violates the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution. [read post]
22 May 2020, 8:51 am by Jeffery Robinson
 An objective, fact-based evaluation of America’s history regarding home ownership, education, the use of the criminal legal system, and other critical areas of American life will reveal a government-supported philosophy that is best described by Thurgood Marshall in his Supreme Court argument in Brown v. the Board. [read post]
15 Dec 2016, 7:25 am by Lovechilde
  The only voters who seemed to care about the Supreme Court were the conservatives who want to see Roe v. [read post]
8 Jun 2016, 6:15 am by Marty Lederman
I am deeply indebted to former Georgetown Law professor Tom Krattenmaker, one of Justice John Marshall Harlan’s clerks in the October Term 1970, from whom I learned some of the information below about the Court’s internal deliberations in the Clay case. [read post]