Navigating Separation of Powers: The Supreme Court and Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Document Type
Presentation
Presentation Date
2008
Abstract or Description
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association
How does the Supreme Court make its decision? Analysts typically point to three different models: the legal, attitudinal, and strategic models. While civil rights issues are very salient and may be the subject of the litmus tests for presidents appointing justices, the issues are bound to attract the attention of Congress and interest groups. How does this constrain the Court? We examine the civil rights cases decided by the Supreme Court since Brown v. Board of Education and pay attention to the role of precedent, issue evolution, the elected branches, and the solicitor general. How do these forces influence the Court? Does the nature of the influence change if the case is constitutional v. statutory?
Sponsorship/Conference/Institution
Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association
Location
New Orleans, Louisiana
Source
https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/spsa/spsa08/index.php?click_key=1&PHPSESSID=19q6j9qfum5lj0m74ertkjamr5
Recommended Citation
Pacelle, Richard L. Jr., Jason Lawrence, Brett W. Curry, Bryan Marshall.
2008.
"Navigating Separation of Powers: The Supreme Court and Civil Rights and Civil Liberties."
Department of Political Science and International Studies Faculty Presentations.
Presentation 271.
source: https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/spsa/spsa08/index.php?click_key=1&PHPSESSID=19q6j9qfum5lj0m74ertkjamr5
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/poli-sci-facpres/271
