SCOTUS 2018 Major Decisions and Developments of the US Supreme Court
Each year, the Supreme Court of the United States announces new rulings with deep consequences for our lives. This inaugural volume in Palgrave’s new SCOTUS series describes, explains, and contextualizes the landmark cases of the US Supreme Court in the t
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2018 MAJOR DECISIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS OF THE US SUPREME COURT
Edited by DAVID KLEIN and MORGAN MARIETTA
SCOTUS 2018
David Klein · Morgan Marietta Editors
SCOTUS 2018 Major Decisions and Developments of the US Supreme Court
Editors David Klein Department of Political Science Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI, USA
Morgan Marietta Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Lowell Lowell, MA, USA
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Preface
Welcome to this new annual series on the major rulings of the Supreme Court. Each year, the Supreme Court announces new rulings with deep consequences for our lives. The decisions this year will influence how we conduct elections, who are (or are not) our neighbors, how LGBT citizens and religious businesses interact, and how millions of public employees relate to their unions. The rulings change how some of us pay taxes and whether the government has access to the data in our cell phones. But the grounds for those decisions can be obscure. The Constitution can seem distant and difficult rather than clear and compelling. Depending on how we read and understand our laws, a claim to citizen rights or to government powers can be self-evident or utterly disputed; sometimes it is obvious from one perspective, but demonstrably wrong from another. When the Justices of the Supreme Court address these dispu
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