U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law
Jul. 8, 2014
Supreme Court chose to bunt this term
The high court's term completed earlier last week appears noteworthy for how the justices mostly decided big cases in cautious and evolutionary, rather than bold and revolutionary, ways.
Glenn C. Smith
Professor
California Western School of Law
Glenn teaches constitutional law and a Supreme Court decision-making seminar at California Western School of Law and with the University of California, San Diego Political Science Department. He is the principal co-author of "Constitutional Law for Dummies" [John Wiley & Sons, Inc.]. His monthly "Constitutional Context" audio podcasts are hosted by SDSU's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (and available by app from I-Tunes and other major service providers).
Let's set aside for the moment whether the Supreme Court's opinion in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores is as "startling" in breadth as the dissenting justices claimed. And please put the cellphone-search cases (Riley v. California and United States v. Wurie) temporarily on hold.
That done, the Supreme Court term completed earlier last week appears noteworthy for how the justices mostly decided big cases in cautious and evolutionary, rather than bold and revolutio...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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