Supreme Court

The highest judicial body/court of a nation or jurisdiction, which in many of these claims refers to the Supreme Court of the United States but also to India’s Supreme Court and other national supreme courts. As used across the claims it functions as an actor issuing rulings on constitutional protections, election disputes, religious accommodation duties, and civil/political cases.

Claims that use this term

• The Supreme Court denied constitutional protections to Guam’s people.
• The Supreme Court rejected four parties’ candidate lists on vague technical grounds in 1969
• The Supreme Court ruled religious accommodation duties apply even without explicit requests
• The Supreme Court replicated Gandhi’s anti-protest logic on the Narmada dam in 2000.
• The Supreme Court rejected the state’s claim that the NOI was merely political
• The Supreme Court ruled high-caste Hindus ineligible for naturalization as non-Whites