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This is a 45 page chapter on the 2017-18 term of the US Supreme Court. The goal of the chapter is to support any American Government book that needs additional, up-to-date coverage on this topic. The chapter is sold as part of a bundle with American Government texts. Prominent cases --- and their likely policy consequences --- will be examined in this chapter. At the same time, it will consider some of the less visible cases that also have important reverberations through different segments of society. Patent rights, plea bargains, and the power of unions of government workers may not captivate the mass public, but they matter a great deal to corporations, criminal defendants, and the huge number of public employees in the United States.
This chapter will provide an opportunity to review more fully the impact of Justice Gorsuch --- his judicial philosophy and his effect on the norms of the Court --- as well as the extent to which Justice Kennedy acts as the decisive vote in determining the direction of the justices' policymaking.
Sommario
Legal doctrines
Free exercise of religion
Search and seizure
Abortion
Voting rights
Presidential power
Immigration
Economic regulation
Federalism
Statistical patterns
Unanimity
Opinion writing
Ideological voting
The importance of Justice Kennedy
Conclusions
Questions for Discussion
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Kevin T. McGuire (PhD, The Ohio State University) is Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A former Fulbright Scholar at Trinity College, Dublin, he is the author of Understanding the U.S. Supreme Court: Cases and Controversies and The Supreme Court Bar: Legal Elites in the Washington Community. He is the editor of New Directions in Judicial Politics, and coeditor, with Kermit L. Hall, of Institutions of American Democracy: The Judiciary.
