Today’s Washington Post preview of the Supreme Court’s upcoming term quotes the national legal director of the ACLU stating “potentially the big issue of the term is going to be the Supreme Court’s impact on the political system.” This term, the Court will decide the McCain-Feingold case and a potentially very important case on partisan gerrymandering, Veith v. Jubelirer.
This term is not much different from other terms over the last 40 years at the Supreme Court. I offer a critical examination of the history of the Supreme Court’s intervention in the political process in The Supreme Court and Election Law: Judging Equality from Baker v. Carr to Bush v. Gore. The book’s scheduled publication date is November 1, but NYU Press has just posted the book’s Table of Contents and Introduction. The introduction includes the following statistics:
- In the period 1901