Repugnant Laws: Judicial Review of Acts of Congress from the Founding to the Present

Repugnant Laws: Judicial Review of Acts of Congress from the Founding to the Present
ISBN-10
0700630368
ISBN-13
9780700630363
Category
Political Science
Pages
432
Language
English
Published
2020-05-18
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Author
Keith E. Whittington

Description

The USA may want to believe that the Supreme Court is above politics; in fact the Court is a political institution and operates in a political environment to advance controversial principles, often with the aid of political leaders who sometimes encourage and generally tolerate the judicial nullification of federal laws because it serves their own interests to do so.

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