Supreme Court
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Egypt and the Problem of Democratic Legitimacy
According to the civics text books, a democracy is a government in which the people are sovereign. In its republican forms it elects people who represent them in legislatures, and they work to create the laws that the sovereign people are obligated to obey, whether they like them or not because they were enacted by
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SCOTUS Rulings Lost in the News
From today's NYT piece on the Robert's court 'steady move to the right': In lower-profile cases, the court’s rulings continued to be good for business interests and bad for the Obama administration. “We shouldn’t lose sight of the court cementing its legacy as the most pro-business court in the modern era,” said Lee Epstein, who teaches