U.S.: 9 Supreme Court cases that shaped the 2010s Thursday, December 26, 2019

Vox

If you want to understand what the Supreme Court became in the last decade, consider a 2012 study by University of California, Irvine law professor Rick Hasen.

Between 1975 and 1990, Hasen found that Congress enacted “an average of twelve overrides of Supreme Court cases in each two-year Congressional term.” Between 2001 and 2012, by contrast, the number of overrides dwindled to a mere 2.8 per two-year term. (Hasen defines the term “override” broadly to include acts of Congress that “overturned, reversed, or modified a Supreme Court statutory interpretation holding.”)

As Congress has become more dysfunctional, the Supreme Court’s ruling has increasingly become the final word in American governance.

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