Beyond the Swing Justice: Majority Makers, Dissent Bridges, and Coalition Drift on the Supreme Court
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Beyond the swing justice: majority makers, dissent bridges, and coalition drift on the Supreme Court
Justice Amy Coney Barrett recently resisted a label that has followed several members of the current Supreme Court. Asked whether her occasional breaks with the court’s conservative majority meant she was a swing vote, Barrett said the term made her sound “sort of flighty.” She preferred “independent, or just following the law.”The older idea of a swing justice referred to a durable position near the court’s ideological center. Justices Lewis Po…
The Major Questions Doctrine Is About the Supreme Court Reserving Power For Itself
During the Biden administration, the Supreme Court’s six-justice conservative supermajority got very comfortable using the “major questions” doctrine to limit executive power. In his 2022 majority opinion in West Virginia v. EPA, for example, Chief Justice John Roberts argued that when an agency decides a question of “vast economic and political significance,” courts should not assume that Congress intended to grant that authority through broad …
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