Adam Liptak NYT Sidebar column: The arguments this month over the role of state legislatures in setting rules for federal elections seemed to illustrate the point. The questioning suggested that the court was not prepared to adopt a novel legal theory that … Continue reading “An ‘Imperial Supreme Court’ Asserts Its Power, Alarming Scholars; Several new studies document the current court’s distinctive insistence on its dominance and the justices’ willingness to use procedural shortcuts to achieve it”