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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. RES. 136 |
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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 | | MARCH25, 2025 |
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| 8 | 8 | | Mr. D |
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| 9 | 9 | | URBIN(for himself, Mr. SCHUMER, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. HICKENLOOPER, |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. C |
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| 11 | 11 | | OONS, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Ms. DUCKWORTH, Mr. |
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| 12 | 12 | | W |
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| 13 | 13 | | ELCH, Mr. PADILLA, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. OSSOFF, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, |
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| 14 | 14 | | Mrs. S |
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| 15 | 15 | | HAHEEN, and Mr. KELLY) submitted the following resolution; |
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| 16 | 16 | | which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary |
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| 17 | 17 | | RESOLUTION |
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| 18 | 18 | | Affirming the rule of law and the legitimacy of judicial |
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| 19 | 19 | | review. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Resolved, That the Senate affirms that— 1 |
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| 21 | 21 | | (1) Article III of the Constitution of the United 2 |
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| 22 | 22 | | States vests the ‘‘judicial Power of the United States 3 |
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| 23 | 23 | | . . . in one supreme Court, and in such inferior 4 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Courts as the Congress may from time to time or-5 |
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| 25 | 25 | | dain and establish’’; 6 |
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| 26 | 26 | | (2) as Chief Justice Marshall held in the Su-7 |
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| 27 | 27 | | preme Court’s landmark 1803 decision Marbury v. 8 |
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| 30 | 30 | | •SRES 136 IS |
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| 31 | 31 | | Madison, ‘‘It is emphatically the province and duty 1 |
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| 32 | 32 | | of the judicial department to say what the law is’’; 2 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (3) the Constitution of the United States and 3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | established precedent require the executive branch to 4 |
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| 35 | 35 | | comply with all Federal court rulings; and 5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (4) if the executive branch disagrees with a rul-6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | ing by a Federal court, it may appeal that ruling 7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | when authorized by law. 8 |
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