With their upcoming decision concerning whether Donald Trump can appear on the Colorado ballot, Supreme Court justices face the possibility that the ruling could be ignored or defied by the public.
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Legitimacy is an essential part of comprehending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and its intractable nature.
As a powerful branch of government, the Supreme Court has enormous power over public policy only if defendants comply with its rulings.
If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, will it be out of step with America?
A collapse in political legitimacy means people think the normal rules don’t apply anymore, making the world a more difficult and even dangerous place for all of us.
Has Europe’s last dictator finally gone too far?
When people don’t trust the government, the media or police, they are less inclined to play by the rules and more likely to lash out violently.
While Donald Trump’s election may seem to US voters to present unprecedented questions of legitimacy, such questions were first asked more than a century ago, in an election that turned on bicycles.
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Deputy Director, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law. President, Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics., Griffith University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University
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Professor of Political Science & Director of the Graduate Program in Public Policy, Trinity College
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Graduate Student in History, Northwestern University
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Associate Professor of Instruction in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, Affiliate Professor at the Institute for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies, University of South Florida
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University of Notre Dame
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science, Clemson University
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