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2022-2023 Cato Sup. Ct. Rev. ix (2022-2023)

handle is hein.journals/catoscrev22 and id is 1 raw text is: FOREWORD The Court Is All Right. Anastasia P. Boden* It's often said that big Supreme Court terms are followed by quiet ones. Not this year. Big government led to big overreach, which led to big cases and yet another year of big decisions. Because the Court can't please everyone, that inevitably led to big criticism. As a result, the Court is now mired in accusations of overreach, activism, and partisanship. Dissent is to be expected, indeed welcomed in this country- particularly when it comes to judicial decisions. Our adversarial court system and the American tradition of free debate is built on the notion that strong argumentation on both sides leads to the discov- ery of truth. But lately, popular dissent has shifted from the Court is wrong to the Court is-in the words of President Joe Biden-not normal.' Those who can't win at the Supreme Court are trying to discredit it. Does a look at the past Term bear these accusations out? Not re- ally. Yes, there were a few big decisions, but the polarized state of our nation means that all nuance about how the Court actually operates has been lost. There were far more narrow rulings than * I'm thrilled to be writing my first Foreword as Director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies. If you would've told me a decade ago, as I pored over italicized commas and dangling gerunds as a Cato intern, that in 12 short years I'd be writing the opening piece of this journal, I'd have fallen over in libertarian- constitutional-nerd glee. This is the Center's 22nd volume of the Cato Supreme Court Review, an annual critique of the Court's most important decisions and a peek at the coming term. It is the first journal of its kind to be released and the only to take a clas- sical liberal, Madisonian perspective, grounded in the principles of liberty through constitutionally limited government. We release it every year in celebration of Consti- tution Day September 17. I Kelly Garrity, 'This is Not a Normal Court': Biden Blasts Affirmative Action Ruling, POLITICO (June 29, 2023), https:/ /tinyurl.com/3kk3yhys. ix

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