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Author
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...
Author
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...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In 1800, the United States teetered on the brink of a second revolution. The presidential election between Adams and Jefferson was a bitterly contested tie, and the government neared collapse. The Supreme Court had no clear purpose or power-no one had even thought to build it a courtroom in the new capital city. When Adams sought to prolong his policies in defiance of the electorate by packing the courts, the fine words of the new Constitution could...
Author
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
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,...
15) The Constitution and the Court: the development of the basic law through judicial interpretation
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
English
Author
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.
Author
Series
Gaspar G. Bacon lectureship ; 1958
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1959.
Language
English