Argues that while the Supreme Court's partisan decision in Bush v. Gore caused many Americans to lose faith in its ability to provide fair decisions, some good can still come from this event.
Paul Finkelman establishes an authoritative account of each justice's proslavery position, the reasoning behind his opposition to black freedom, and the personal incentives that embedded racism ever deeper in American civic life"--
Focusing on six major Supreme Court cases during the 1960s and 1970s, Marc Stein examines the generally liberal rulings on birth control, abortion, interracial marriage, and obscenity in Griswold, Eisenstadt, Roe, Loving, and Fanny Hill ...
The Supreme Injustice and the Unanswered Questions
Martis, Kenneth C. 1982. The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts, 1789–1983. New York: Free Press. ... McDonald, Laughlin. 1989. “The Quiet Revolution in Minority Voting Rights.” Vanderbilt Law Review 42: 1249–97.
“With Supreme Inequality, Adam Cohen has built, brick by brick, an airtight case against the Supreme Court of the last half-century.
This book tells the dramatic story of twenty-eight law students—one of whom was the author—who went south at the height of the civil rights era and helped change death penalty jurisprudence forever.
She read: State versus Edward Lee Elmore. We, the jury, in the above entitled case, having found beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of the following statutory aggravating circumstances, to wit: one, criminal sexual conduct first ...
I drew the contrast: President Kennedy had refused in 1963 to use troops when Mississippi Governor Barnett defied a federal court order to admit ... They were John Minor Wisdom, Elbert Parr Tuttle, Richard Rives, and John R. Brown.
Supreme Injustice: Guilty Until Proven Not Catholic?
True story of the crime, rape and murder, that resulted in the landmark Supreme Court decision of COX CABLE CORP, ET AL vs COHN (1975)