PSC 441 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: William Marbury, Thurgood Marshall, Tennessee Valley Authority
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Chief justice john marshall in essence articulated such veto power for the. Judicial review was asserted by the u. s. supreme court in 1803 in the decision of chief justice john marshall in the case of marbury v. madison. John marshall (chief justice) unable to deliver all of the commissions for. Adam"s appointed judges before jefferson was sworn in and jefferson told marshall not to deliver the rest of the commissions. 1800 adams, defeated in election by jefferson, appointed many federalist judges to dc courts. As judges awaited approval, jefferson stopped the mail, which contained the go-ahead for those judges to start their jobs. William marbury was one of those adams-appointed judges and brought the case to sc. February 24, 1803, the dc chief justice john marshall (federalist appointed by john adams) ruled on the case. Marbury had the right to his judge job. The sc had no power to make madison hand over marbury"s commission (job permission)
