CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
CLASS 5
JUDICIAL POWER: SUPREME COURT
AUTHORITY TO REVIEW STATE COURT
JUDGMENTS/CONGRESSIONAL POWER
TO STRIP FEDERAL COURTS OF
JURISDICTION
POWER TO STRIP COURTS OF
JURISDICTION
• Supreme Court and/or federal courts?
• Supreme Court’s original and/or
appellate jurisdiction?
• Look at text (Exceptions Clause),
precedent, policy/structure arguments
Ex Parte McCardle (1869)
Ex Parte Yerger (1868)
Felker v. Turpin (1996)
United States v. Klein (1872)
Plant v. Spendthrift Farm, Inc.
(1995)
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
REPRESENTATIONREINFORCING REVIEW
• John Hart Ely
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)