On March 26, 1962, the Supreme Court decided Baker v. Carr, finding that it had the power to review the redistricting of state…
On February 24, 1803, Chief Justice John Marshall issued the Supreme Court’s decision in Marbury v. Madison, establishing the…
The Constitution’s first amendment after the Bill of Rights represented the first use of congressional power to contradict a…
The Constitution gives the U.S. Supreme Court a special type of jurisdiction over cases “in which a State shall be Party.” So…
The long-running dispute over the constitutionality of the massive federal health insurance law – the Affordable Care Act, or…
In an act of “judicial jujitsu,” the Supreme Court issued its decision in Marbury v. Madison on February 24, 1803,…
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