Author ORCID Identifier
Andrew Jennings 0009-0003-8399-0096
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Keywords
117th Congress, Supreme Court, Ideology, Majority, Rule of Four, Appellate jurisdiction
Abstract
If the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s successor is confirmed before the 2020 presidential election or in the post-election lame-duck period, and if Democrats come to have unified control of government on January 20, 2021, how can they respond legislatively to the Court’s new 6-3 conservative ideological balance? This Essay frames a hypothetical 117th Congress’s options, discusses its four simplest legislative responses—expand the Court, limit its certiorari discretion, restrict its jurisdiction, or reroute its jurisdiction—and offers model statutory language for enacting those responses.
First Page
407
Publication Title
California Law Review Online
Recommended Citation
Andrew K. Jennings & Athul K. Acharya, The Supreme Court and the 117th Congress, 11 CALIF. L. REV. ONLINE 407 (2020).
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Comments
Copyright © 2020 Andrew K. Jennings & Athul K. Acharya