Playing it Safe : : How the Supreme Court Sidesteps Hard Cases and Stunts the Development of Law / / Lisa Kloppenberg.
It is one of the unspoken truths of the American judicial system that courts go out of their way to avoid having to decide important and controversial issues. Even the Supreme Courtfrom which the entire nation seeks guidancefrequently engages in transparent tactics to avoid difficult, politically se...
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Kloppenberg, Lisa, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Playing it Safe : How the Supreme Court Sidesteps Hard Cases and Stunts the Development of Law / Lisa Kloppenberg. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2001] ©2001 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Critical America ; 49 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Court Avoids Scrutinizing “Official English” Mandate -- 2. The Court Grapples with Congress and Standing Hurdles in Environmental Cases -- 3. The Court Uses Standing to Discourage Redress for Racial Wrongs -- 4. Avoiding Selected Affirmative Action Challenges -- 5. Coming Out of the Constitutional Closet -- 6. Avoiding Gender Equality -- 7. The Court’s Aggressive Expansion of States’ Rights -- Conclusion: Looking toward the Future: A Presumption against Avoidance -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star It is one of the unspoken truths of the American judicial system that courts go out of their way to avoid having to decide important and controversial issues. Even the Supreme Courtfrom which the entire nation seeks guidancefrequently engages in transparent tactics to avoid difficult, politically sensitive cases. The Court's reliance on avoidance has been inconsistent and at times politically motivated. For example, liberal New Deal Justices, responding to the activism of a conservative Court, promoted deference to Congress and the presidency to protect the Court from political pressure. Likewise, as the Warren Court recognized new constitutional rights, conservative judges and critics praised avoidance as a foundational rule of judicial restraint. And as conservative Justices have constituted the majority on the Court in recent years, many liberals and moderates have urged avoidance, for fear of disagreeable verdicts. By sharing the stories of litigants who struggled unsuccessfully to raise before the Supreme Court constitutional matters of the utmost importance from the 1970s-1990s, Playing it Safe argues that judges who fail to exercise their power in hard cases in effect abdicate their constitutional responsibility when it is needed most, and in so doing betray their commitment to neutrality. Lisa Kloppenberg demonstrates how the Court often avoids socially sensitive cases, such as those involving racial and ethnic discrimination, gender inequalities, abortion restrictions, sexual orientation discrimination, and environmental abuses. In the process, the Court ducks its responsibility to check the more politically responsive branches of government when "majority rule" pushes the boundaries of constitutional law. The Court has not used these malleable doctrines evenhandedly: it has actively shielded states from liability and national oversight, and aggressively expanded standing requirements to limit the role of federal courts. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024) Certiorari United States History. Political questions and judicial power United States History. LAW / Jurisprudence. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110706444 print 9780814747407 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814748664.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814748664 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814748664/original |
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