{"id":16881,"date":"2018-06-09T11:08:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T16:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wistful-signature.flywheelsites.com\/cklawreview\/?page_id=16881"},"modified":"2018-07-02T00:08:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T05:08:30","slug":"the-ginsburg-rules","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/studentorgs.kentlaw.iit.edu\/cklawreview\/the-ginsburg-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Gorsuch and the Ginsburg Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In light of the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kentlaw.iit.edu\/iscotus\/dancing-away-brown\/\">trend<\/a> of federal judiciary nominees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/05\/17\/politics\/judicial-nominees-senate-committee-brown-v-board-of-education\/index.html\">refusing to answer questions on\u00a0<em>Brown v. Board of Education<\/em><\/a> during confirmation hearings, we are pleased to offer an early look at Professors Lori Ringhand&#8217;s and Paul Collins Jr.&#8217;s article, <em>Neil Gorsuch and the Ginsburg Rule<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">s<\/span><\/em>, featured in our forthcoming Volume 93, Issue 2!<\/p>\n<p>In their article, Professors Ringhand and Collins empirically show that the so-called &#8220;Ginsburg Rule&#8221;\u2014judicial nominees&#8217; practice of avoiding opining on previously decided Supreme Court cases\u2014is both erroneously attributed to Justice Ginsburg and is more accurately described as encompassing two rules: nominees rarely answer questions about currently contested constitutional controversies, but they routinely affirm the correctness of settled and well-accepted cases. Ringhand and Collins argue that a shift away from this second practice undermines the value of the confirmation process as a way for society to &#8220;affirm our shared constitutional commitments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Neil Gorsuch and the Ginsburg Rule<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">s<\/span><\/em> was presented last fall as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kentlaw.iit.edu\/iscotus\/\">ISCOTUS<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/studentorgs.kentlaw.iit.edu\/cklawreview\/live-symposia\/the-supreme-court-and-american-politics\/\">The Supreme Court and American Politics&#8221; symposium<\/a>. The full symposium will be published in Volume 93, Issue 2 this summer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/studentorgs.kentlaw.iit.edu\/cklawreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/Neil-Gorsuch-and-the-Ginsburg-Rules.pdf\">Click through below to read <em>Neil Gorsuch and t<\/em><em>he Ginsburg Rule<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">s<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/studentorgs.kentlaw.iit.edu\/cklawreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/Neil-Gorsuch-and-the-Ginsburg-Rules.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16976 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/studentorgs.kentlaw.iit.edu\/cklawreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/07-Ringhand.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"927\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studentorgs.kentlaw.iit.edu\/cklawreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/07-Ringhand.png 927w, https:\/\/studentorgs.kentlaw.iit.edu\/cklawreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/07-Ringhand-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/studentorgs.kentlaw.iit.edu\/cklawreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/07-Ringhand-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/studentorgs.kentlaw.iit.edu\/cklawreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/07-Ringhand-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/studentorgs.kentlaw.iit.edu\/cklawreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/07-Ringhand-700x906.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 927px) 100vw, 927px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the recent trend of federal judiciary nominees refusing to answer questions on\u00a0Brown v. 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