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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. RES. 108 |
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| 5 | 5 | | Affirming the rule of law and the legitimacy of judicial review. |
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| 6 | 6 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 7 | 7 | | MARCH5, 2025 |
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| 8 | 8 | | Mr. D |
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| 9 | 9 | | URBIN(for himself, Mr. COONS, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. |
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| 10 | 10 | | B |
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| 11 | 11 | | OOKER, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. KIM, Mrs. SHAHEEN, |
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| 12 | 12 | | Ms. H |
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| 13 | 13 | | IRONO, Ms. CORTEZMASTO, Mr. HICKENLOOPER, Mr. HEINRICH, |
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| 14 | 14 | | Ms. D |
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| 15 | 15 | | UCKWORTH, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. WELCH, Mr. KELLY, Mr. PADILLA, |
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| 16 | 16 | | Mr. S |
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| 17 | 17 | | CHUMER, Mr. OSSOFF, and Mr. WARNOCK) submitted the following |
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| 18 | 18 | | resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary |
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| 19 | 19 | | RESOLUTION |
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| 20 | 20 | | Affirming the rule of law and the legitimacy of judicial |
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| 21 | 21 | | review. |
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| 22 | 22 | | Whereas the Constitution of the United States establishes 3 |
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| 23 | 23 | | separate but equal branches of Government; |
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| 24 | 24 | | Whereas Article III of the Constitution of the United States |
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| 25 | 25 | | vests the ‘‘judicial Power of the United States . . . in one |
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| 26 | 26 | | supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Con- |
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| 27 | 27 | | gress may from time to time ordain and establish’’; |
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| 28 | 28 | | Whereas the Supreme Court of the United States, in |
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| 29 | 29 | | Marbury v. Madison, established the principle of judicial |
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| 30 | 30 | | review, which empowers Federal courts to hold that a leg- |
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| 31 | 31 | | islative or executive act violates the Constitution of the |
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| 32 | 32 | | United States; |
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| 35 | 35 | | •SRES 108 IS |
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| 36 | 36 | | Whereas Vice President Vance and other prominent elected |
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| 37 | 37 | | officials have made remarks suggesting the President or |
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| 38 | 38 | | the executive branch may ignore the constitutional au- |
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| 39 | 39 | | thority of the Federal Judiciary and disregard a decision |
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| 40 | 40 | | of a Federal court; and |
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| 41 | 41 | | Whereas the President or the executive branch ignoring the |
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| 42 | 42 | | constitutional authority of the Federal Judiciary and dis- |
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| 43 | 43 | | regarding a decision of a Federal court would precipitate |
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| 44 | 44 | | a constitutional crisis: Now, therefore, be it |
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| 45 | 45 | | Resolved, That the Senate affirms that— 1 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (1) Article III of the Constitution of the United 2 |
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| 47 | 47 | | States vests the ‘‘judicial Power of the United States 3 |
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| 48 | 48 | | . . . in one supreme Court, and in such inferior 4 |
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| 49 | 49 | | Courts as the Congress may from time to time or-5 |
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| 50 | 50 | | dain and establish’’; 6 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (2) as Chief Justice Marshall held in the Su-7 |
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| 52 | 52 | | preme Court’s landmark 1803 decision Marbury v. 8 |
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| 53 | 53 | | Madison, ‘‘It is emphatically the province and duty 9 |
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| 54 | 54 | | of the judicial department to say what the law is’’; 10 |
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| 55 | 55 | | and 11 |
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| 56 | 56 | | (3) the Constitution of the United States and 12 |
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| 57 | 57 | | established precedent require the executive branch to 13 |
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| 58 | 58 | | comply with all Federal court rulings. 14 |
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