Preface.

• Date: 01 January 2019
• Author: Proctor, Ryan M.

Over the past two years, the federal judiciary has increasingly come into public view. From the travel ban to the 2020 census to DACA, warring political factions have turned to the courts to settle their disagreements on fundamental national questions. The nominations of both Journal alumnus Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court turned into highly publicized partisan political struggles, with both Justices being confirmed by narrow, nearly party-line votes. In such times, a proper understanding of the Constitution, the principles motivating it, and the role of judges in interpreting it is especially worthy of study. Scholars and judges from around the country addressed these issues and more in the Thirty-Seventh Annual Federalist Society Student Symposium in March 2018.

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