Keith E. Whittington

Yale Law School

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New Haven, CT 06510

United States

Princeton University - Department of Political Science

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Princeton, NJ 08544-1012

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1.

A Formidable Weapon of Faction? The Law and Politics of Impeachment

Law and Social Inquiry, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 14 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2019
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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Donald Trump, Presidential Impeachment, Impeachment, High Crimes, Impeachable Offenses, Constitutional Politics, Constitutional Construction

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Introduction for Law and Politics: Critical Concepts in Political Science

LAW AND POLITICS: CRITICAL CONCEPTS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE, K. Whittington, ed., Routledge, December 2012
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 02 Jun 2012
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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law and politics, law and courts, judicial politics, political science, law and society, political jurisprudence

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Presidents, Senates, and Failed Supreme Court Nominations

U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 103, Princeton Law and Public Affairs Working Paper No. 06-016
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 15 Aug 2006
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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Supreme Court, Senate, presidency, confirmation, appointments

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Originalism: A Critical Introduction

Fordham Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 26 Aug 2013
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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originalism, constitutional interpretation, constitutional construction, judicial review, constitutional theory

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Professorial Speech, the First Amendment, and the 'Anti-CRT' Laws

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 19 Aug 2022
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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academic freedom, free speech, government speech, government employee speech, critical race theory, pickering, garcetti

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Originalism, Constitutional Construction, and the Problem of Faithless Electors

Arizona Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 06 Mar 2017
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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Electoral College, Faithless Electors, Originalism, Constitutional Construction, Constitutional History

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On Institutional Neutrality and the Purpose of a University

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 30 Apr 2024
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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institutional neutrality; Kalven Report; academic freedom; university governance; higher education

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The Status of Unwritten Constitutional Conventions in the United States

University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2013, No. 5, 2013
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 06 Apr 2013
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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constitutional conventions, dicey, amar, norms, unwritten constitution, construction

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What Can Professors Say on Campus? Intramural Speech and the First Amendment

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 27 Aug 2023
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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academic freedom, intramural speech, pickering, connick, garcetti, shared governance, free speech, campus free speech, first amendment, porter, north carolina state university

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Making a Mountain Out of a Molehill? Marbury and the Construction of the Constitutional Canon

Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 13 Feb 2012
Keith E. Whittington and Amanda Rinderle
Yale Law School and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Marbury, John Marshall, judicial review, constitutional canon, citations

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What Can Professors Say in Public? Extramural Speech and the First Amendment

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 21 Oct 2022
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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government employee speech, academic freedom, First Amendment, Pickering, extramural speech

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The Myth of the Nondelegation Doctrine

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 165, 2016
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 02 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2018
Keith E. Whittington and Jason Iuliano
Yale Law School and University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law
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nondelegation, delegation, constitution, constitution-in-exile, New Deal

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The Least Activist Supreme Court in History? The Roberts Court and the Exercise of Judicial Review

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 89, No. 5, 2014
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 09 Feb 2014
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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Roberts Court, judicial review, judicial activism, Rehnquist Court, conservative, judicial restraint

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Constructing a New American Constitution

Constitutional Commentary 34:1 (Fall 2010): 119-37
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 06 Jun 2012
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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originalism, constitutional construction, judicial review, constitutional politics, popular constitutionalism

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Diversity Statements, Academic Freedom, And The First Amendment

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 23 Jan 2025
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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diversity statements, academic freedom, freedom of speech, higher education, faculty hiring, first amendment, government employee speech doctrine, compelled speech, diversity, equity, and inclusion, DEI

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Academic Freedom and the Mission of the University

Houston Law Review, Vol. 59, No. 4, 2022
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 05 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2022
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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academic freedom, intellectual freedom, First Amendment, free speech, higher education

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Is Originalism Too Conservative?

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, 34 (2011): 29
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 06 Jun 2012
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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originalism, constitutional interpretation, judicial review, conservatism, Reagan, Scalia

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Ideology, Partisanship, and Judicial Review of Acts of Congress, 1789-2006

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 20 Sep 2009
Tom S. Clark and Keith E. Whittington
Emory University - Department of Political Science and Yale Law School
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On Pluralism within Originalism

THE CHALLENGE OF ORIGINALISM: THEORIES OF CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION, Grant Huscroft and Bradley W. Miller, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2011
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 02 Jun 2012
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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originalism, pluralism, constitutional interpretation, Griffin, modalities

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Why Does the Supreme Court Uphold so Many Laws?

University of Illinois Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 19 May 2017
Ben Johnson and Keith E. Whittington
University of Florida Levin College of Law and Yale Law School
Downloads 254 (259,690)
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judicial review, cert, reversals, judicial politics, supreme court

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Sober Second Thoughts: Evaluating the History of Horizontal Judicial Review by the U.S. Supreme Court

Constitutional Studies, (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 11 Jul 2016
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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judicial review, Supreme Court, judicial politics

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Presidential Immunity

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 11 Sep 2024
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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Free Speech and the Diverse University

Fordham Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 05 Mar 2019
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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free speech, academic freedom, campus free speech, inclusivity, higher education

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Much Ado About Nothing: Signing Statements, Vetoes, and Presidential Constitutional Interpretation

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 58, 2016
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 18 Jul 2016
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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signing statements, presidential veto, departmentalism, George W. Bush

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Academic Freedom and the Scope of Protections for Extramural Speech

Academe, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 19 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2019
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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academic freedom, extramural speech, free speech, First Amendment, prophylatic rules

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State Constitutional Law in the New Deal Period

Rutgers Law Journal Forthcoming
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 13 Apr 2015
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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judicial review, states, constitutional law, constitutional development, New Deal

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The Bounded Independence of American Courts

New York University Law Review Online (2017)
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 19 Mar 2018
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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judicial independence, Donald Trump, departmentalism, Merryman

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The Nondelegation Doctrine: Alive and Well

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 93, 2017
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 14 Aug 2018
Jason Iuliano and Keith E. Whittington
University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law and Yale Law School
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Nondelegation; Delegation; Separation of Powers; New Deal; Constitution-In-Exile

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Partisanship, Norms, and Federal Judicial Appointments

Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 26 Mar 2018
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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Federal Courts, Judicial Selection, Separation of Powers, Trump, Judicial Independence, Court Packing

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The Vexing Problem of Faithless Electors

Cato Supreme Court Review, 2020
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 18 Sep 2020
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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Electoral College, Presidency, Faithless Electors, Presidential Election, Supreme Court, Hamilton Electors, Chiafalo v. Washington, Colorado Department of State v. Baca

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Impeachment in a System of Checks and Balances

Missouri Law Review, Vol. 87, No. 3, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 19 Jul 2022
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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impeachment, high crimes and misdemeanors, Donald Trump, separation of powers

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Is Presidential Impeachment Like a Coup?

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 19 Dec 2019
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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Donald Trump, impeachment, presidency, separation of powers

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Judicial Review of Congress Database Codebook

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 10 Jun 2019
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
Downloads 66 (736,597)
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judicial review, Marbury, Supreme Court, Congress, constitutional history, constitutional law

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'Our Own Limited Role in Policing These Boundaries': Taking Small Steps on Health Care

Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 22 Sep 2012
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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Affordable Care Act, ACA, Roberts Court, Sebelius, commerce clause, taxation clause, healthcare

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Intellectual Diversity Mandates and the Freedom to Teach

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 05 Feb 2025
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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academic freedom, higher education, freedom to teach, higher education reform, intellectual diversity mandates, intellectual diversity, diversity, campus free speech, critical race theory, ideological diversity, political diversity, political bias, university governance

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Constitutional Constraints in Politics

The Supreme Court and the Idea of Constitutionalism, Steven Kautz, ed., University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009
Posted: 14 Nov 2010
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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constitutionalism, constitutional law, judicial review, separation of powers, constitutional failure, supreme court

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The State of the Union is a Presidential Pep Rally

Inter Alia: Yale Law and Policy Review, Vol. 28, June 2010
Posted: 14 Nov 2010
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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presidency, supreme court, citizens united, state of the union, judicial review, judicial independence, separation of powers

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Judicial Checks on the President

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY, George C. Edwards III, William G. Howell, Oxford University Press, 2009
Posted: 13 Nov 2010
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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presidency, judicial review, administrative law, Chevron, Youngstown

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Judicial Review of Congress Before the Civil War

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 97, No. 5, 2009
Posted: 30 May 2009
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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Marbury, Dred Scott, judicial review, judicial supremacy, constitutional history, judicial politics

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Constitutionalism

Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics, 2008
Posted: 03 Dec 2008
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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constitutionalism, constitution, judicial review, supreme court, constitutional law, popular constitutionalism, separation of powers

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The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics

OXFORD HANDBOOK OF LAW AND POLITICS, Keith E. Whittington, R. Daniel Kelemen, Gregory A. Caldeira, eds., Oxford University Press, Forthcoming
Posted: 06 Oct 2008
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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politics, political science, courts, policy, judicial politics, judicial process

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Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The President, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History

Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy, 2007
Posted: 26 Mar 2007
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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judicial supremacy, judicial review, departmentalism, popular constitution, presidency

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Clothed with the Legitimate Authority of the People: A Review of Akhil Amar's America's Constitution

Princeton Law and Public Affairs Working Paper, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 126
Posted: 18 Nov 2005
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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Constitution, constitutional history, Amar

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Interpose Your Friendly Hand: Political Supports for the Exercise of Judicial Review by the United States Supreme Court

American Political Science Review, Vol. 99, No. 4, November 2005, Princeton Law and Public Affairs Working Paper
Posted: 15 Sep 2005
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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judicial review, judicial supremacy, judicial activism, judicial independence

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The Burger Court: Once More in Transition

THE SUPREMEM COURT OF THE UNITED STATES: THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE, Christopher Tomlins, ed., New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005
Posted: 09 Sep 2005
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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Burger Court, judicial review, Warren Court, Rehnquist Court

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Constitutional Theory and the Faces of Power

THE JUDICIARY IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: ALEXANDER BICKEL, THE COUNTER-MAJORITARIAN DIFFICULTY, AND CONTEMPORARY CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY, Kenneth Ward, ed., Albany: SUNY Press, 2005
Posted: 09 Sep 2005
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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constitutionalism, constitutional theory, judicial review, Bickel

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Judicial Review and Interpretation: Have the Courts Become Sovereign When Interpreting the Constitution?

THE INSTITUTIONS OF DEMOCRACY: THE JUDICIAL BRANCH, Kermit Hall, Kevin McGuire, eds., New York: Oxford University Press, 2005
Posted: 09 Sep 2005
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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judicial review, judicial activism, democracy, constitutional interpretation

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Congress and the Constitution

Posted: 06 Jul 2005
Neal Devins and Keith E. Whittington
William & Mary Law School and Yale Law School

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Congress, constitution outside the courts, judicial review, extrajudicial

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James Madison Has Left the Building: A Review of J. Mitchell Pickerill, Constitutional Deliberation in Congress

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Congress, constitution outside the courts, judicial review, extrajudicial

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Congress Before the Lochner Court

Posted: 22 May 2005
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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Lochner, judicial review, countermajoritarian, judicial supremacy

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The Casey Five Versus the Federalism Five: Supreme Legislator or Prudent Umpire?

Posted: 22 Aug 2004
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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Casey, abortion, federalism, judicial review, judicial supremacy, judicial activism

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Judicial Independence, the Power of the Purse, and Inherent Judicial Powers

Posted: 12 Jul 2004
G. Gregg Webb and Keith E. Whittington
Princeton University and Yale Law School

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inherent judicial powers, state courts, budget politics, judicial independence

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Executive Power in American Institutional Development

Posted: 12 Jul 2004
Keith E. Whittington and Dan Carpenter
Yale Law School and Harvard University

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presidency, congress, delegation, presidential power, separation of powers

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The New Originalism

Posted: 23 Jun 2004
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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original intent, constitutional theory, judicial review, Rehnquist

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Legislative Sanctions and the Strategic Environment of Judicial Review

Posted: 24 Feb 2003
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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William H. Rehnquist: Nixon's Strict Constructionist, Reagan's Chief Justice

Posted: 11 Feb 2003
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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William Rehnquist, Supreme Court, judicial review, original intent

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'To Support this Constitution': Judicial Supremacy in the Twentieth Century

Posted: 11 Feb 2003
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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judicial review, judicial activism, Supreme Court, judicial supremacy

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Yet Another Constitutional Crisis?

Posted: 11 Jan 2002
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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Impeachment, Presidential Election, Bush v. Gore, Constitutional Crisis, Constitutional Theory, Separation of Powers

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Extrajudicial Constitutional Interpretation: Three Objections and Responses

Posted: 21 Dec 2001
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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Judicial Supremacy, Judicial Review, Judicial Activism, Constitution Outside the Courts, Constitutional Interpretation

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Taking What They Give Us: Explaining the Court's Federalism Offensive

Posted: 22 Oct 2001
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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federalism, Supreme Court, commerce clause

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Presidential Challenges to Judicial Supremacy and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning

Polity, Vol. 33, Spring 2001
Posted: 05 Jun 2001
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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judicial supremacy, judicial independence, presidency, constitutional interpretation, departmentalism

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The Road Not Taken: Dred Scott, Judicial Authority, and Political Questions

Posted: 25 May 2001
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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Dworkin's 'Originalism': The Role of Intentions in Constitutional Interpretation

Review of Politics, Vol. 62, Spring 2000
Posted: 14 Nov 2000
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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Bill Clinton Was No Andrew Johnson: Comparing Two Impeachments

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 2, March 2000
Posted: 07 Jun 2000
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and Judicial Review

Posted: 01 Mar 2000
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning

Posted: 01 Mar 2000
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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Dismantling the Modern State? The Changing Structural Foundations of Federalism

Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Vol. 25, Summer 1998
Posted: 03 Nov 1998
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School

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Research Note on the History of Judicial Review of Congress and JRC Database

Number of pages: 3 Posted: 17 Jun 2019
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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judicial review, Supreme Court, Congress, constitutional history, Marbury, constitutional law

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Partisanship, Norms, and Federal Judicial Appointments

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 04 Dec 2017
Keith E. Whittington
Yale Law School
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judicial appointments, confirmations, Senate, circuit courts, federal courts, constitutional law