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| (1803) Established precedent for Judicial Review |
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| (1971) Pentagon Papers case, SCOTUS sided with NYT on 1A |
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| Youngstown Sheet and Tube v. Sawyer |
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| (1952) Steel seizure case. Question of Executive prerogative. SCOTUS ruled with the steel mills |
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| (1911) SCOTUS refused to hear case, saying that Congress was just trying to trigger an advisory opinion |
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| (1952) Prayer in schools, rendered moot when Doremus graduated high school |
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| (1974) An important social issue concerning racial discrimination, but rendered moot because the resolution sought be DeFunis was achieved anyway |
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| (1961) Denied on lack of ripeness, the law in question had never actually needed to be enforced |
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| United Public Workers v. Mitchell |
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| (1952) Initially denied on ripeness, no case to rule on until the law actually takes effect |
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| (1923) Individuals can't sue the Fed because of taxes |
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| (1968) Individual third party lawsuits against taxes are OK when they deal with fundamental rights that there is no other way of testing |
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| Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State |
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| (1982) SCOTUS refused to extend Flast to grant VFCC standing to sue |
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| (1962) Reapportionment is a Judicial question, not a political one |
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| (1946) Reapportionment of state legislature borders is a political question, not Justiciable. (This case was pretty much shot down with Baker v. Carr) |
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| (1978) Questions about the ratification of Treaties by Senate/President are political, not Justiciable, |
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| (1796) Early Judicial Review. SCOTUS heard a case about a tax on carriages and upheld the law as Constitutional |
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| (1816) SCOTUS has JR authority over state laws too |
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| (1825) Perhaps SCOTUS' JR authority over Congress is unfounded? |
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| (1969) SCOTUS can rule on matters of interpreting the Constitution, not a political question. Congress can expel members but not exclude them |
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| (1995) Congress cannot make Congressional membership qualifications stricter than laid out in Constitution |
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| (1972) Speech and Debate clause applies to the legislative process, but nothing else. Not a contract with press |
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| (1979) Newsletters, campaign lit, and press conferences are not covered in Speech and Debate clause |
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| (1821) Congress has contempt power against nonmembers |
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| (1881) Narrow investigatory authority |
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| (1927) Loosens investigatory rules |
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