This creates educational and organizing possibilities that have been, for the most part, deemed impossible.
Where this leads is up to us. Fundamental constitutional changes in the past have come about following deep, sound and profound social movements. Democratizing the U.S. Supreme Court will be no different.
Coleridge is a member of the POCLAD collective and Director of the Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). The views in the article are not necessarily those of AFSC.
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1 Democracy here refers to the US democratic republican system that contains elements of representative government (election of executives and legislators) and direct democracy (initiatives, referendums, recalls).
2 Cobb, David. The Case Against Judicial Review, By What Authority, POCLAD, Fall 2007
poclad.org/BWA/2007/BWA_2007_FALL.html
3 Toobin, Jeffrey, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, Anchor, 2007
4 Rasmussen Reports. Supreme Court Update: 26% Rate the Supreme Court's Performance Positively, June 24, 2014
click here
5 Democracy Corps. Broad Bi-Partisan Consensus Supports Reforms to the Supreme Court, May 7, 2014
www.democracycorps.com/attachments/article/979/DCorps SCOTUS Memo FINAL 050614.pdf
6 Compilation based on information at click here
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 de Andrade, Gustavo Fernandes. Comparative Constitutional Law: Judicial Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, May 2001
10 Alivizatos, Nicos C. "Judges as Veto Players, " in H. Doering (ed.), Parliaments and Majority Rule
11 Sweet, Alex Stone. Why Europe Rejected American Judicial Review - and Why it May Not Matter, Alec Stone Sweet, January, 2003, Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository in Western Europe, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1995
Where this leads is up to us. Fundamental constitutional changes in the past have come about following deep, sound and profound social movements. Democratizing the U.S. Supreme Court will be no different.
Coleridge is a member of the POCLAD collective and Director of the Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). The views in the article are not necessarily those of AFSC.
Sources
2 Cobb, David. The Case Against Judicial Review, By What Authority, POCLAD, Fall 2007
poclad.org/BWA/2007/BWA_2007_FALL.html
3 Toobin, Jeffrey, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, Anchor, 2007
4 Rasmussen Reports. Supreme Court Update: 26% Rate the Supreme Court's Performance Positively, June 24, 2014
click here
5 Democracy Corps. Broad Bi-Partisan Consensus Supports Reforms to the Supreme Court, May 7, 2014
www.democracycorps.com/attachments/article/979/DCorps SCOTUS Memo FINAL 050614.pdf
6 Compilation based on information at click here
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 de Andrade, Gustavo Fernandes. Comparative Constitutional Law: Judicial Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, May 2001
10 Alivizatos, Nicos C. "Judges as Veto Players, " in H. Doering (ed.), Parliaments and Majority Rule
11 Sweet, Alex Stone. Why Europe Rejected American Judicial Review - and Why it May Not Matter, Alec Stone Sweet, January, 2003, Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository in Western Europe, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1995
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