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Where Have You Gone, Karl Llewellyn - Should Congress Turn Its Lonely Eyes To You, Stephen Ross
Where Have You Gone, Karl Llewellyn - Should Congress Turn Its Lonely Eyes To You, Stephen Ross
Stephen F Ross
The purpose of this paper is to explore what, if anything, Congress should do about the canons of statutory construction to prevent judges who are more conservative (or perhaps, in a future era, more progressive) than the majority of the legislature from employing those canons to distort or frustrate legislative policy preferences.
Reaganist Realism Comes To Detriot, Stephen Ross
Reaganist Realism Comes To Detriot, Stephen Ross
Stephen F Ross
Part I of this article discusses Detroit Newspapers and explains how in deferring to the Attorney General's interpretation of the Newspaper Preservation Act, Judge Silberman disregarded every applicable technique of statutory interpretation typically used to resolve the issue. Indeed, each of these techniques suggests that Attorney General Meese's interpretation of the Act was incorrect. This part of the article also demonstrates why deference to Meese was particularly inappropriate in light of the generally accepted justifications for judicial deference to administrative interpretations of statutes.
Part II explains that Detroit Newspapers is one of several opinions by conservative Reagan judicial appointees that …