Class 4 - Assignment

On Thursday, we will conclude our discussion of justiciability with review of ripeness, mootness, and political question doctrines.

Please read textbook pages 135-151 and the Supreme Court decision in Nixon v. United States, 506 U.S. 224 (1993) at:

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/nixonvus.html

Do NOT attempt to read the decision in Bush v. Gore (2000). I've changed my mind and decided it will be easier to discuss this decision through my own presentation and lecture since, in actuality, it is an opinion where the political question doctrine was avoided.