Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in Virginia

Former Chief Justice John Marshall established early on the right

of the Supreme Court of the United States to have the right of judicial

review of all laws passed by the U.S. Congress and to say what the

law is (or might be) in a given controverted matter. ( A classic example of such review and resultant ruling might be the Court's decision last June of 2012 regarding the controversial healthcare legislation which Congress had enacted a year or two earlier.)