CONSTITUTIONAL LAW CLASS 5

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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW CLASS 5

• JUDICIAL POWER SUPREME COURT AUTHORITY TO REVIEW
  STATE COURT JUDGMENTS/CONGRESSIONAL POWER TO
  STRIP FEDERAL COURTS OF JURISDICTION

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POWER TO STRIP COURTS OF JURISDICTION

• Supreme Court and/or federal courts?
• Supreme Courts original and/or appellate
  jurisdiction?
• Look at text (Exceptions Clause), precedent,
  policy/structure arguments

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Ex Parte McCardle (1869)
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Ex Parte Yerger (1868)
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Felker v. Turpin (1996)
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United States v. Klein (1872)
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Plant v. Spendthrift Farm, Inc. (1995)
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CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION

• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)(CB p. 90)
• In considering this question, then, we must never
  forget that it is a constitution we are expounding

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REPRESENTATION-REINFORCING REVIEW

• John Hart Ely

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U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton (1995) (CB p. 111)

• Basis of the Constituiton Popular Sovereignty
  (maj. opinion of Justice Stevens) v. state
  soverignty (dissent of Justice Thomas)