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  2. Judicial review in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, judicial review is the legal power of a court to determine if a statute, treaty, or administrative regulation contradicts or violates the provisions of existing law, a State Constitution, or ultimately the United States Constitution.

  3. Standard of review - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, in some areas of substantive law, such as when a court is reviewing a First Amendment issue, an appellate court will use a standard of review called "independent review." [citation needed] The standard is somewhere in between de novo review and clearly erroneous review. Under independent review, an appellate court will reexamine ...

  4. List of landmark court decisions in the United States

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    This case featured the first example of judicial review by the Supreme Court. Ware v. Hylton, 3 U.S. 199 (1796) A section of the Treaty of Paris supersedes an otherwise valid Virginia statute under the Supremacy Clause. This case featured the first example of judicial nullification of a state law. Fletcher v.

  5. Rational basis review - Wikipedia

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    Rational basis review is not a genuine effort to determine the legislature's actual reasons for enacting a statute, nor to inquire into whether a statute does in fact further a legitimate end of government. A court applying rational basis review will virtually always uphold a challenged law unless every conceivable justification for it is a ...

  6. NC can’t have judicial standards that only apply to Black ...

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    The Judicial Standards Commission is charged with knowing that. Finally, the Republican politicization of the N.C. Supreme Court has now effectively constrained the ability of the state standards ...

  7. Judicial review - Wikipedia

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    Judicial review can be understood in the context of two distinct—but parallel—legal systems, civil law and common law, and also by two distinct theories of democracy regarding the manner in which government should be organized with respect to the principles and doctrines of legislative supremacy and the separation of powers.

  8. Trumped up Justice Riggs complaint shows how low NC ... - AOL

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    Time to unleash the Republican-dominated Judicial Standards Commission on them. Once again, independent judicial review is on the chopping block. It’s not enough that Republicans have given us ...

  9. Strict scrutiny - Wikipedia

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    The Supreme Court has established standards for determining whether a statute or policy must satisfy strict scrutiny. One ruling suggested that the affected class of people must have experienced a history of discrimination, must be definable as a group based on "obvious, immutable, or distinguishing characteristics", or be a minority or ...