Tag: Marbury v. Madison

Breaking John Marshall’s Spell?

April 11, 2023

by Ian Underwood

We have at least one US Representative (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York) and one US Senator (Ron Wyden of Oregon) openly calling on the Biden administration to simply ‘ignore’ a recent ruling from a federal court.

An Essay: What is “Constitutional”? Who decides?

September 26, 2018February 2, 2013

Yesterday I cited an 1886 Supreme Court decision that ruled that unconstitutional actions or statutes are…inoperative, and of no effect (see it HERE). My long-time buddy and fellow lawyer—I’ll call him Larry—sent me a friendly warning about that post, as follows: