Lamport Court

From AmericanGovSim
Revision as of 04:40, 10 March 2021 by Lamport (talk | contribs)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

The Lamport Court is a period of the Supreme Court during which Lamport was Chief Justice. It followed the Jet Court and preceded the Thanos Court. While a number of appointments were made during his tenure, the bench always had one liberal and two conservatives, in terms of judicial interpretation, giving the Supreme Court its first originalist majority in some 80 years. Most notably, it revived the legal concept of corporate personhood, protected campaign donations by natural persons under the first amendment, narrowed the origination clause to discount the "particular government program" exception and narrowed the interstate commerce clause as well by restoring the distinction between commerce and production in Carter. Lamport served as Chief Justice from July, 2019 to January, 2021.

Justices

Incumbents are in bold.