Courts
Supreme Court Offers Opinion, Doesn’t Make Law
Whenever state laws are overturned by the Supreme Court, such decisions are often cited as repudiation against any sort of argument for their legitimacy. While case law is regularly debated, the court’s constitutional power to make such reversals is rarely questioned....
John Roberts? Meet John Marshall.
The Obamacare Decision and State Sovereignty In 1823, Thomas Jefferson wrote that “this case of Marbury and Madison is continually cited by bench and bar, as if it were settled law, without any animadversion on its being merely an obiter dissertation of the Chief...