POL 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Appellate Jurisdiction, Mandamus, Originalism
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Marshall, current secretary of state, was supposed to deliver the commissions after. Because the judiciary act of 1789 says that the supreme court has power for a writ of. 1 chief justice and 5 associate justices on sc. Compensation clause: judges cannot have their salary reduced during tenure. Independent judiciary with checks on it so that doesn"t have unlimited power. Consent part of constitution led people to believe that the senate votes whether or not. Federal judges they should be approved to serve. Adams" midnight appointments before jefferson came into presidency mandamus, a court order for an official to do something political disaster because jefferson doesn"t get what he wants, and constitutional crisis. Loyalists it but the state said that the land is theirs and then va sells it to david hunter owners - u. s. supreme court reverses and remands the decision saying that the treaty trumps state law.