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basic objective of creating a workable democratic government. In this way the Court can help maintain the public’s confidence in the legitimacy of its interpretive role.”).
risks conferring unwarranted legitimacy on those who insist that modern race-conscious reform policies betray the dominant principles of the civil rights
according to Melling, because they “keep alive a very public debate about the legitimacy of the new norms and the morality of those they protect.” In
society: “Even if it is true that Plataput mass incarceration on trial, it did not critique confinement itself and the legitimacy of these carceral
formula- tions.”119 Exemptions are therefore problematic, according to Melling, because they “keep alive a very public debate about the legitimacy
courts still have a role to play in determining the legitimacy of a treaty and its implementing legislation. They can look to the enactment process
narrower than those of anti- subordination approaches, moreover, Ackerman risks conferring unwarranted legitimacy on those who insist that modern race
courts and the press, public pressure, and recognition of the relationship between ethics and the legitimacy of the courts have all contributed to this
OF LEGITIMACY 39, 58 (Bruce Ackerman ed., 2002); see also Milton Heumann & Lance Cassak, The Supreme Court and Bush v. Gore: Resolving Electoral
indeed vulnerable. Suppose that questions of political morality underlie judgments about the legitimacy of discrimination or the scope of free