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Sovereignty and Activist Judges
In its current term, the U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on many crucial and emotionally charged issues affecting the nation. These range from voting rights to same-sex marriage to race-based college admissions policies. The intensity of these disputes was on full display on February 27 during the court’s oral argument on the Voting Rights Act. Unusually visceral questioning from Justices Antonin Scalia and Sonia Sotomayor, representing opposite ends of the court’s ideological spectrum, offered a glimpse into the raw conflicts coming to a boil before the high court.
Posted in Constitution, Immigration & Border Security, News and Analysis, Sovereignty
Tagged Bill of Rights, Constitution, democratically enacted laws and public votes, Eighth AmendmentX federal judicial activism, Fourth Amendment, individual sovereignty, judicial activism, Senate Bill 1070, sovereignty, state sovereignty, states' rights, Tenth Amendment, Voting Rights Act
