Judicial Branch and Administrative Law (US Supreme Court, Toobin and Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight)
1.What is the significance of the oath of office given by Roberts to Obama and how did it reflect the relations of the two men? Please comment on their backgrounds, their political
ideologies and make specific reference to the Citizens United case and the Affordable Health Care case.
a. What was the background of the President-elect and the seventeenth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court as portrayed in the first 17 pages of the book in
terms of their education and career commitments,
b. How did they differ in their approach to the law and society?
2.How did the botched Oath of Office highlight the tension between Obama and Roberts as described by Toobin in Chapter 2 to the qualities that separated them as he
a. Obama’s position on gun policy and
b. Roberts history as a clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist. The narrative will set the stage for your analysis of specific cases that Obama opposed and Roberts opposed ini one instance, Citizens’ United v. FEC, but, strangely, supported in the test of the Affordable Care Act.
