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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[S. Res. 136 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 136

    Affirming the rule of law and the legitimacy of judicial review.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 25, 2025

Mr. Durbin (for himself, Mr. Schumer, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Hickenlooper, Mr. 
  Coons, Mr. Whitehouse, Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Welch, Mr. 
 Padilla, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Ossoff, Mr. Blumenthal, Mrs. Shaheen, and Mr. 
 Kelly) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
    Affirming the rule of law and the legitimacy of judicial review.

    Resolved, That the Senate affirms that--
            (1) Article III of the Constitution of the United States 
        vests the ``judicial Power of the United States . . . in one 
        supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may 
        from time to time ordain and establish'';
            (2) as Chief Justice Marshall held in the Supreme Court's 
        landmark 1803 decision Marbury v. Madison, ``It is emphatically 
        the province and duty of the judicial department to say what 
        the law is'';
            (3) the Constitution of the United States and established 
        precedent require the executive branch to comply with all 
        Federal court rulings; and
            (4) if the executive branch disagrees with a ruling by a 
        Federal court, it may appeal that ruling when authorized by 
        law.
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