The Obama’s Supreme Court
This article refers the Supreme Court roll in political, juridical, social and economic organization of the United States of America. Barack Obama designed the first court’s associated judge. The huge expectation of this news shows the judicial culture in that country. President Obama declared his v...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2009 |
| Country: | México |
| Institution: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repository: | Cuestiones Constitucionales. Revista Mexicana de Derecho Constitucional |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/5884 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.juridicas.unam.mx/index.php/cuestiones-constitucionales/article/view/5884 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | United States’ Supreme Court Nomination of Judges Institutional Stability Judicial Conservatism Judicial Liberalism Suprema Corte de Estados Unidos nombramiento de jueces estabilidad institucional conservadurismo judicial liberalismo judicial |
| Summary: | This article refers the Supreme Court roll in political, juridical, social and economic organization of the United States of America. Barack Obama designed the first court’s associated judge. The huge expectation of this news shows the judicial culture in that country. President Obama declared his vision of the liberal, democratic and popular qualities the designed judge should gather. The designation fell upon Appellation Judge Sonia Sotomayor; the announcement had been warmly received by the liberals and with skepticism by the conservators. When the Supreme Court interprets the Constitution, it sets the ideological route of the system as a whole. Should it have a neutral or ideological behavior? Should the Supreme Court be a change factor? Should it be of institutional stability? Should its President try to get unanimous decisions? Do those unanimous decisions strength or weak a Supreme Court? |
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