Can the judicial branch be a steward in a polarized democracy?

Daedalus

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 25-35

  Rosen, Jeffrey ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84876179135     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/DAED_a_00201     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Jeffrey Rosen, "Roberts's Rules, " The Atlantic, January/February 2007, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/01/roberts-apos-s-rules/5559/.
2. http://www.scotusblog.com/archives/EndofTermAnalysis.pdf.
3. http://www.scotusblog.com/archives/Super Stat Pack.pdf.
4. Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc., 551 U.S. 449, 498-499 n.7 (2007)(Scalia, J., concurring).
5. See, for example, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, 551 U.S.701, 803 (2007) (Breyer, J., dissenting).
6. http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/SB_OT10_stat_pack_final.pdf.
7. See Michael Orey, "The Supreme Court: Open for Business, " Businessweek, July 9, 2007, 30.
8. cited in Jeffrey Rosen, "Symposium Keynote Address: Big Business and the Roberts Court, "Santa Clara Law Review 49 (2009): 997.
9. Adam Liptak, "Justices Offer Receptive Ear to Business Interests, " The New York Times, December19, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/us/19roberts.html?pagewanted=all.
10. Adam Liptak, "Court Under Roberts is Most Conservative in Decades, " The New York Times, July 25, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/us/25roberts.html?pagewanted=all.
11. Rosen, "Roberts's Rules. "
12. See generally, Lucas A. Powe, Jr., The Warren Court and American Politics (Cambridge, Mass.:Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000).
13. Adam Liptak, "A Sign of the Court's Polarization: Choice of Clerks, " The New York Times, September 7, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/us/politics/07clerks.html?pagewanted=all.
14. Adam Liptak and Michael D. Shear, "Republicans Turn Judicial Power into a Campaign Issue, " The New York Times, October 24, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/us/politics/republicans-turn-judicial-power-into-a-campaign-issue.html?pagewanted=all.
15. Jeffrey Rosen, "Boston Legal: The Law According to Mitt, " The New Republic, November 17,2011, http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/96708/boston-legal-constitution-romney.
16. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/08pdf/08-322.pdf.
17. Benjamin Wittes, "The Supreme Court's Looming Legitimacy Crisis, " June 25, 2007, http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2007/0625governance_wittes.aspx.
18. Joel Connelly, "Supremes' Approval Rating Takes a Dip, " October 4, 2011, http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2011/10/04/supremes-approval-rating-takes-a-dip/.
19. Wittes, "The Supreme Court's Looming Legitimacy Crisis. "
20. http://blog.oup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Persily-Campbell-health-care-case-in-public-mind.pdf.
21. Sarah Binder, "Consequences for the Courts: Polarized Politics and the Judicial Branch, " inRed and Blue Nation? vol. 2, Consequences and Correction of America's Polarized Politics, ed. Pietro S. Nivola and David W. Brady (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2008),115-124.