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English
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As the Supreme Court continues to rule on important issues, it is essential to understand how it operates. Based on exclusive interviews with the justices themselves and other insiders, this is a timely "state of the union" about America's most elite legal institution. From Anthony Kennedy's self-importance, to Antonin Scalia's combativeness, to David Souter's eccentricity, and even Sandra Day O'Connor's fateful breach with President George W. Bush,...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Justice Breyer discusses what the Court must do going forward to maintain that public confidence and argues for interpreting the Constitution in a way that works in practice. He forcefully rejects competing approaches that look exclusively to the Constitution's text or to the eighteenth-century views of the framers. Instead, he advocates a pragmatic approach that applies unchanging constitutional values to ever-changing circumstances--an approach...
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Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The US Constitution is a blueprint for a free society as well as a source of enduring conflict over how that society must be governed. The competing ways of reading our founding document shape the decisions of the Supreme Court, which acts as the final voice on constitutional questions. This citizen's guide explains the central conflicts that frame our constitutional controversies, written in clear non-academic language to serve as a resource for...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Mark Tushnet is Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University Law Center and the author of Red, White and Blue: A Critical Analysis of Constitutional Law and of a two-volume study of the career of Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall, Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961 and Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991. He is also the coauthor...
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Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Can the government seize your house to build a shopping mall? Can it determine what control you have over your own body? Can police search your cellphone? The answers to those questions come from the Supreme Court, whose rulings have shaped American life and justice and allowed Americans to retain basic freedoms such as privacy, free speech, and the right to a fair trial. Especially relevant in light of Justice Antonin Scalias passing, as President...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"On the eve of a presidential election that may determine the makeup of Supreme Court justices for decades to come, prominent attorney James D. Zirin argues that the Court has become increasingly partisan, rapidly making policy choices right and left on bases that have nothing to do with law or the Constitution. Zirin explains how we arrived at the present situation and looks at the current divide through its leading partisans: Justices Ruth Bader...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
'Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy' examines why presidents and political leaders have often found judicial supremacy to be in their interest. The text shows why presidents have rarely assumed responsibility for interpreting the Constitution and why constitutional leadership has often been passed to the courts.
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Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
©1989.
Language
English
Description
A rare, insider' s look into the Supreme Court nomination process.
In July of 1987, Judge Robert H. Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan, but by late October that year, his confirmation was denied. In this candid account of his experiences, Bork describes the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing from his point of view. He also expounds on his view of politics versus the law, which he was able to see in action during...
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Series
Gaspar G. Bacon lectureship ; 1958
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1959.
Language
English
20) The Constitution and the Court: the development of the basic law through judicial interpretation
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
English