PSCI 3362 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Decision-Making
19 Apr 2016
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The supreme court is reactive, it cannot be proactive. The law matters, they just interpret the law. Ideology - justices are driven by their ideology and the law doesn"t matter as much. Vote - by signing on to an opinion. If we didn"t have signed opinions, they can act freely more due to the secrecy. You vote how you want to vote, ideological. Controlling case for partisan gerrymandering came from indiana, 1986 - bandemer v. Parties in gerrymandering, violation of protection clause, it was unconstitutional. Set up standard - here"s how you know when partisan gerrymandering has happened. Sometimes some cases could not be decided upon, cannot write a majority opinion over it. And they reschedule the hearing for it next term. And they can be assigned to work a certain case and draft the opinion, and see what it is going to take to get people on to the assignment. There are justices who specialize in certain areas.
