by Shiva Kangeyan | Apr 29, 2019 | University of Chicago
The Shelby County v. Holder Supreme Court decision occurred in June 2013. The premise of the case was that Shelby County, Alabama sued the federal government over sections 5 and 4(b) of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, saying that those two clauses violated both Article 4...
by Renee Colby | Apr 23, 2019 | University of Chicago
Of all of the things that the writers of the US Constitution may have intended, it is quite certain that their intent was to create a democracy. For all the rest, lawyers and judges and politicians bicker. Each word of the Constitution has been picked apart, split...
by Thomas Martino | Apr 22, 2019 | University of Chicago
Tolerant Democracy American democracy is built upon the preposition that the political opposition is not the enemy. In their book How Democracies Die, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt describe mutual toleration and institutional forbearance as the bedrocks to...
by Emily Morrison | Apr 21, 2019 | University of Chicago
Since his election in 2016, President Trump has had the opportunity to appoint not one, but two Supreme Court justices. If re-elected in 2020, the probability of another vacancy on the Court is very high. One of the vacancies, later filled by Justice Neil Gorsuch,...
by Kenneth Coleman | Apr 21, 2019 | University of Chicago
The Bush v. Gore (2000) decision has been scrutinized as the most partisan decision by the Supreme Court, arguably in history, but certainly for the last several decades. Justice John Paul Stevens in his dissent states “the identity of the loser [of the 2000...
