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Article III, Section 2
On this day, Supreme Court reviews redistricting
On March 26, 1962, the Supreme Court decided Baker v. Carr, finding that it had the power to review the redistricting of state…
Marbury v. Madison and the independent Supreme Court
On February 24, 1803, Chief Justice John Marshall issued the Supreme Court’s decision in Marbury v. Madison, establishing the…
The 11th Amendment: Correcting the Supreme Court in action
The Constitution’s first amendment after the Bill of Rights represented the first use of congressional power to contradict a…
Why Texas’s election suit failed to reach first base in the Supreme Court
The Constitution gives the U.S. Supreme Court a special type of jurisdiction over cases “in which a State shall be Party.” So…
Appeals court puts Obamacare’s fate deeper in doubt
The long-running dispute over the constitutionality of the massive federal health insurance law – the Affordable Care Act, or…
Marbury v. Madison: The Supreme Court claims its power
In an act of “judicial jujitsu,” the Supreme Court issued its decision in Marbury v. Madison on February 24, 1803,…
