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A Second Take Today on the Supreme Court

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Earlier today I posted Joan Biskupic's USA Today article.  FindLaw.com columnist Edward Lazarus has, "The Supreme Court and Public Opinion: Will They Soon Diverge If a Democrat Is Elected This Year?"Throughout our history, the Supreme Court has moved in and out of sync with public opinion and the dominant political sentiment in the country. In the early 1930s, for example, the Court - led by the famous "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" - stood in stark opposition to President Franklin Roosevelt's economic reform program and the progressive political current that he rode to multiple re-elections. Although changes in personnel at the Court eventually brought it back into harmony with contemporary politics, a serious clash between the Court and the presidency was only narrowly averted, by the "switch in time that saved nine" through which one Justice decided FDR's programs were constitutional after all...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 18, 2008 (boomark / email).