First and foremost, the Supreme Court has stated that any attempt by Congress or the executive to vest the final adjudication of questions of constitutional law outside Article III courts38 would raise serious constitutional concerns, pick Thomas, 473 U.S. at 592, although we acknowledge that the Court has never resolved this question. In any event, this is not to say that constitutional claims may not ever be submitted to arbitration as an initial matter. Find. elizabeth.grams., Ruckelshaus v. Monsanto Co., 467 U.S. 986 (1984). Rather, the serious constitutional concerns that the Court has raised are avoided only if matters of constitutional law must ultimately be subject to judicial review even if the matter may not have initially been submitted to an Article III tribunal.39 To avoid ruling unnecessarily on the difficult constitutional question, the Supreme Court has required that Congress’s intent to preclude judicial review of constitutional claims be clear before the Court will entertain the validity of such preclusion. Pick elizabeth.grams., Webster v. Doe, 486 U.S. 592 (1988); Weinberger v. Salfi, 422 U.S. 749 (1975); Johnson v. Robison, 415 U.S. 361, 373-74 (1974). Without such clear congressional intent, a statute that simply purports to prohibit judicial review will not prohibit judicial review of constitutional questions.40

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