US v. Windsor (the DOMA case) is about Congress's power over marriage and about fundamental rights and about equality and about
the proper role of the judiciary and about methods of constitutional interpretation.
Not exact matches
This case raises challenging questions about the
proper constitutional
role of courts, their appropriate function on judicial review, and the relationship between administrative tribunals and the
judiciary.
This data driven conclusion is enormously comforting for those who worry about the
proper role of the federal
judiciary in a democratic society.
[4] Recognition
of the
proper roles of the legislature and the
judiciary requires that courts give effect to the plain meaning
of the words
of a duly enacted statute, and a court should not interfere merely because it does not approve
of the result produced by the statute in a particular case.
None
of these law enforcement efforts will succeed without a
judiciary that understands its
proper role and its
proper mission.