Is it ever legitimate to redraw electoral districts on the basis of race? In its long struggle with this question, the U.S. Supreme Court has treated race-conscious redistricting either as a requirement of political fairness or as an exercise in corrosive racial quotas. Cutting through these contradictory positions, Keith Bybee examines the theoretical foundations of the Court's decisions and the ideological controversy those decisions have engendered. He uncovers erroneous assumptions about political identity on both sides of the debate and formulates new terms on which minority...
Is it ever legitimate to redraw electoral districts on the basis of race? In its long struggle with this question, the U.S. Supreme Court has treat...
We live in an age where one person's judicial -activist- legislating from the bench is another's impartial arbiter fairly interpreting the law. After the Supreme Court ended the 2000 Presidential election with its decision in Bush v. Gore, many critics claimed that the justices had simply voted their political preferences. But Justice Clarence Thomas, among many others, disagreed and insisted that the Court had acted according to legal principle, stating: -I plead with you, that, whatever you do, don't try to apply the rules of the political world to this institution; they do not...
We live in an age where one person's judicial -activist- legislating from the bench is another's impartial arbiter fairly interpreting the law. After ...
We live in an age where one person's judicial -activist- legislating from the bench is another's impartial arbiter fairly interpreting the law. After the Supreme Court ended the 2000 Presidential election with its decision in Bush v. Gore, many critics claimed that the justices had simply voted their political preferences. But Justice Clarence Thomas, among many others, disagreed and insisted that the Court had acted according to legal principle, stating: -I plead with you, that, whatever you do, don't try to apply the rules of the political world to this institution; they do not...
We live in an age where one person's judicial -activist- legislating from the bench is another's impartial arbiter fairly interpreting the law. After ...
