Can the Supreme Court Survive a Health-Care Decision?
After it rules on the health-care debate and makes other momentous decisions this term, will the U.S. Supreme have sufficient stores of legitimacy to weather the inevitable backlash?
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Supreme Court Decisions
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A Politicized Supreme Court Doesn’t Faze the Public?
Two political scientists review a survey of perceptions about the U.S. Supreme Court and find the public may actually want the justices to trade their black robes for red and blue ones.
Following the Money a Year After Citizens United
Observers thought heaps of anonymous cash would flood U.S. campaign coffers after the controversial Supreme Court decision. They were right.
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Fred Korematsu was a U.S.-born Japanese-American who deliberately decided to stay in California and not be moved to…
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Ruled that the Florida recounts in the presidential election violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment,…
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1886)
A complicated tax case stemming from a California law that stated railroads could not deduct the value of…
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Dred Scott was a slave born in Virginia who claimed he should have been emancipated when his owner…
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Homer Plessy was a Louisiana black man who boarded a “whites only” railroad car. He was arrested and…
Head-Scratchers from the Nine
The recent ruling on corporate political rights left some observers to cry the sky is falling. Some past decisions really did merit Chicken Little's exclamation.