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Judicial Joyriding

Strict Scrutiny

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The Court's Legitimacy Depends on Acceptance by the American Public

Docket behavior doesn't even satisfy that kind of baseline requirement of legal legitimacy. There will always be other ways in which the court can attain legitimacy, he says. The public has accepted the courts authority historically is because of some belief, as we've now returned to a few times in this hour, that the court wasn't just a political actor and was doing something different from the political branches.

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