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POL 201 Week 4 DQ 1 The Supreme Court and Judicial ReviewClick Here to Buy the Tutorialhttp://www.uoptutorial.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=459&product_id=6943For more course tutorials visitwww.uoptutorial.comThe Supreme Court and Judicial Review. In a recent lecture at Yale University, SupremeCourt Justice Stephen Breyer cautioned that while most citizens assume that judicial reviewis an enduring part of American government, judges should not take it for granted. He advisesthat if judges wish to preserve this undemocratic power they should follow a judicialphilosophy that will "build confidence in the courts" (Breyer, 2011). Justice Breyer goes onto describe the kind of judicial philosophy he has in mind. However, some of his colleagueson the Supreme Court would reject his ideas about what philosophy should guide judges.The role of judicial philosophy (or ideology) in Supreme Court decision-making, especiallyin its exercise of judicial review to invalidate laws enacted by a democratically electedCongress or state legislature, has become a highly contentious issue both within the Court'sdeliberations and in the larger political environment. As the nation becomes more dividedover programs and policies that inevitably seem to come before the Supreme Court,politicians and ordinary citizens are caught up in rhetoric about judicial activism or judicialrestraint, often with little understanding of what these terms really mean.Moreover, as public perceptions of the Supreme Court become more politicized, thelegitimacy of its power becomes clouded. If the