Kindle Notes & Highlights
Every attempt to employ the theory proved equally self-serving and futile. In 1809, the Court explicitly rejected the application of the concept to federal judicial rulings. “If the legislatures of the several States may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States … the Constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery …” John Marshall wrote for a unanimous Court.
Our society must deal with the Court as it deals with many other transgressors of law and order. —L. BRENT BOZELL, NATIONAL REVIEW EDITOR, MARCH 6, 1958
