The Consistency of the U.S. Supreme Court's "Pro-State" Bloc

Abstract

This article examines bloc of U.S. Supreme Court justices that produced pro-state decisions in United States v. Lopez, Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida, and Printz v. United States. We are concerned primarily with bloc's coherence and consistency across other of interest to state governments over 1994-1996 terms. The labeling of individual justices and Court in general as pro-state depends in part on subjected to analysis; greater inclusiveness of list of cases of interest to states, the more bloc seems to fray and less coherent Court's direction.