Partisanship raises stakes of Supreme Court statutory rulings
Partisanship within Congress has raised the stakes for Supreme Court statutory law rulings, since bipartisan legislative overrides of Supreme Court interpretations have greatly diminished and partisan overriding is much rarer, argues a paper from University of California-Irvine law professor Richard Hasen.
On the day before the presidential election, the Supreme Court debated an important legal legacy of the outgoing Bush administration.