How Mindful are Supreme Court Justices of Politics?
How Mindful are Supreme Court Justices of Politics? Wednesday February 8, 2006 A common piece of evidence cited for the idea that Supreme Court justices are politically oriented is how quickly the justices started switching their votes when President Roosevelt started threatening to force them to retire or add more justice who would vote the way he wanted. Evidence suggests, however, the Supreme Court votes evolved gradually rather than switching suddenly. The Winter 2006 issue of the Wilson Quarterly discusses The Debate Over the Constitutional Revolution of 1937: Introduction by Alan Brinkley and The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the New Deal by Laura Kalman, both in American Historical Review, Oct. 2005: At bottom, Brinkley and Kalman observe, this is a debate about how the Supreme Court changes its mind. Is the Court (and the law more generally) a creature of politics, as legal realists and other thinkers of progressive bent have argued? Thats the implication of the standard
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}if(zs>0){zSB(3,3)}else{gEI(“spacer”).style.display=’none’;gEI(“sidebar”).style.display=’none’}A common piece of evidence cited for the idea that Supreme Court justices are politically oriented is how quickly the justices started switching their votes when President Roosevelt started threatening to force them to retire or add more justice who would vote the way he wanted. Evidence suggests, however, the Supreme Court votes evolved gradually rather than switching suddenly. The Winter 2006 issue of the Wilson Quarterly discusses The Debate Over the Constitutional Revolution of 1937: Introduction by Alan Brinkley and The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the New Deal by Laura Kalman, both in American Historical Review, Oct. 2005: At bottom, Brinkley and Kalman observe, this is a debate about how the Supreme Court changes its mind. Is the Court (and the law more generally) a creature of politics, as legal realists and other thinkers of pr
