The Supreme Court and Election Law : Judging Equality from Baker v. Carr to Bush v. Gore / Richard Hasen.
Hasen, Richard, author.
2006
KF4886
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Title The Supreme Court and Election Law : Judging Equality from Baker v. Carr to Bush v. Gore / Richard Hasen.
Author Hasen, Richard, author.
ISBN 9780814744536
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814744536.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2006]
Copyright ©2006
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814744536.001.0001 doi
Call Number KF4886
Dewey Decimal Classification 342.7307
Summary In the first comprehensive study of election law since the Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore, Richard L. Hasen rethinks the Court's role in regulating elections. Drawing on the case files of the Warren, Burger, and Rehnquist courts, Hasen roots the Court's intervention in political process cases to the landmark 1962 case, Baker v. Carr. The case opened the courts to a variety of election law disputes, to the point that the courts now control and direct major aspects of the American electoral process.The Supreme Court does have a crucial role to play in protecting a socially constructed "core" of political equality principles, contends Hasen, but it should leave contested questions of political equality to the political process itself. Under this standard, many of the Court's most important election law cases from Baker to Bush have been wrongly decided.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mighty Platonic Guardians
1. The Supreme Court of Political Equality
2. Judicial Unmanageability and Political Equality
3. Protecting the Core of Political Equality
4. Deferring to Political Branches on Contested Equality Claims
5. Equality, Not Structure
Conclusion: Political Equality and a Minimalist Court
Appendix 1: Twentieth-Century Election Law Cases Decided by the Supreme Court in a Written Opinion
Appendix 2: Justice Goldberg's Proposed Dissent to a Per Curiam Summary Affirmance in Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections
Notes
Index
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