{"id":875,"date":"2022-02-22T19:42:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T00:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/in-print\/volume-19-number-2-summer-2022\/party-coalitions-and-supreme-court-politics-additional-lessons-from-whittingtons-repugnant-laws\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:11:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:11:46","slug":"party-coalitions-and-supreme-court-politics-additional-lessons-from-whittingtons-repugnant-laws","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/in-print-2\/volume-19-number-2-summer-2022\/party-coalitions-and-supreme-court-politics-additional-lessons-from-whittingtons-repugnant-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Party Coalitions and Supreme Court Politics: Additional Lessons from Whittington’s Repugnant Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this review essay, I elaborate on the lessons regarding the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s exercise of judicial review in Keith Whittington\u2019s magisterial book Repugnant Laws. These include his fundamental challenges to our under-standing of the origins of judicial review, the relative importance of Marbury v. Madison, the empirical assumptions underlying the so-called counter- majoritarian difficulty, and the relative \u201cactivism\u201d of the Supreme Court at different times in American history. Central to Whittington\u2019s analysis is his adoption of a \u201cregime politics\u201d approach to the study of courts, and I elaborate on what it is about this approach that allows Whittington to successfully challenge so much conventional wisdom. Finally, I suggest how we might adapt Whittington\u2019s analysis to the Trump Era. Because most of Whittington\u2019s major conclusions about Supreme Court politics assume the existence of dynamic party systems with significant intra-party cleavages, I explore how Supreme Court politics might be different during an extended period of severe party polarization, increasing ideological coherence between the parties, and persistently divided government.<\/p>\n

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