Role of SCOTUS

• strict constructionalist


  a supreme court justice who interprets the constitution literally or strictly. they tend to stress the retention of power by individual states
• loose constructionalist


  a supreme court judge who interprets the constitution less literally. they tend to stress the broad grants of power to the federal government
• who is most famous example of strict constructionism

  Hugo Black
• who is the most famous example of loose constructionalism?

  Ginsburg
• what was shown in United Statesv Rahini

  Neil Gorsuch, appointed by Bush, not all originalist justices will automatically make conservative judgements
• what was shown in Obergefell v Hodges

  Sonia Sotomayor, appointed by Obama, dismisses the focus on a living constitution