Word: ratner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What the New Right proposes instead, in its pending array of court-hobbling bills, is to substitute its own predilections. But the very notion of such legislation, says University of Southern California Law Professor Leonard Ratner, implies that "Congress could by statute profoundly alter the structure of American Government." If the bills were actually enacted, the traditional balance of power between the three branches of U.S. Government would be put thoroughly askew. The Supreme Court would be supreme no more. The "supremacy clause" of the Constitution, declaring that document to be the prevalent law of the land, would become...