Politics

American legal regime is morally legitimate in relationship to most citizens

Mother is serving two-year prison sentence for helping daughter obtain and use abortion pills

301 U.S. 1 (1937) is a legal citation

The South's immediate purpose was frustrating for the indefinite future total compliance with the law of the land

Court interpretations are permissibly within legal system rules

Every law is violent

Breach of contract requires judicial remedy

Behind every exercise of law stands the sheriff

Anticanon is referenced by all sides of modern political and legal controversies

England issued writs of assistance empowering revenue officers to search suspected places for smuggled goods without warrant John Adams called birth of Revolution

Prisoner actually innocent imprisoned for conduct Congress did not criminalize is forever barred from raising that claim because he previously sought postconviction relief

Vice President Joseph R Biden Jr argued President George H W Bush should delay filling a Supreme Court vacancy until presidential election was over

Top congressional Democrats considered similar approaches under two Republican presidencies preceding President Obama

Doerfler & Moyn discussed Theodore Voorhees It’s Time for Merit Selection of Supreme Court Justices in 61 ABA J 705 in 1975

Neal Devins & Lawrence Baum wrote Split Definitive How Party Polarization Turned the Supreme Court into a Partisan Court in 2016 Sup Ct Rev 301 301 309 317–21 in 2017

Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States identified two moments as key reform epochs of the twentieth century

Possible court packing would be correctly perceived as a partisan power grab

Caldeira relies on responses collected from February 3 to February 10

Badas and Caldeira use responses from a 1937 Gallup survey that included questions about Court packing

Public opinion and the U.S. Supreme Court: FDR’s Court-Packing Plan is a review of history