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Samuel P. Jordan & Christopher K. Bader, State Power to Define Jurisdiction, 47 Ga. L. Rev. 1161 (2013).
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Edward Loya Jr., Judicial Supremacy and Federalism: A Closer Look at Danforth and Moore, 2007-2008 Cato Sup. Ct. Rev. 161 (2008).
Analyzing Danforth and Moore decisions of Roberts Court to show that, although individual justices disagree about whether a particular case raises a federal constitutional question, most of the justices favor exclusive federal judicial authority over the interpretation of federal law when it is clear a federal question is presented.
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Randy E. Barnett, The Original Meaning of the Judicial Power, 12 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 115 (2004).
Refuting claim that judicial review was invented with Marbury or that judicial review is contrary to the original meaning of the Constitution by demonstrating that that the founders contemplated judicial nullification of legislation enacted by the states and by Congress.
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Vicki C. Jackson, Suing the Federal Government: Sovereignty, Immunity, and Judicial Independence, 35 Geo. Wash. Int’l L. Rev. 521 (2003).
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Evan Caminker, Allocating the Judicial Power in a “Unified Judiciary,” 78 Tex. L. Rev. 1513 (2000).
Arguing against the assumption that that the judicial power is vested identically and discretely in each and every Article III court created by the Constitution or Congress.
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James S. Liebman & William F. Ryan, “Some Effectual Power”: The Quantity and Quality of Decisionmaking Required of Article III Courts, 98 Colum. L. Rev. 696 (1998).
Analyzing the compromises leading to Article III and the Supremacy Clause to show that the principal mechanism for keeping federal law supreme over contrary state law was not an assured “quantity” of federal “arising under” jurisdiction but an assured “quality” of federal judging in cases where Congress confers jurisdiction.
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Robert J. Pushaw, Jr., Congressional Power over Federal Court Jurisdictions: A Defense of the Neo-Federalist Interpretation of Article III, 1997 BYU L. Rev. 847 (1997).
Advancing a two-tiered “Neo-Federalist” interpretation of Article III: first, Congress must give jurisdiction over “all Cases” to federal courts, whose primary function is exposition; second, Congress may grant jurisdiction over “Controversies,” in which federal judges focus on dispute resolution.
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Robert J. Pushaw, Justiciability and Separation of Powers: A Neo-Federalist Approach, 81 Cornell L. Rev. 393 (1996).
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Steven G. Calabresi & Kevin H. Rhodes, The Structural Constitution: Unitary Executive, Plural Judiciary, 105 Harv. L. Rev. 1153 (1992).
Considering the relationship and impact between Article II “unitary executive” theory and Article III “jurisdiction stripping” and concluding that theories of broad congressional power to restrict federal court jurisdiction strongly suggest limited congressional power to restructure the executive department and that theories of limited congressional jurisdiction stripping power compel a unitary executive.