In ruling after ruling, the three most important pre–Civil War justices—Marshall, Taney, and Story—upheld slavery. 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.
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"--
As ABA president Charles Manderson explained in 1899, “nature, in her evolutionary processes, moves with a deliberation only equaled by her precision. Her motto seems to be, 'make haste slowly!'”63 To legal elites who believed that the ...
The Supreme Injustice and the Unanswered Questions
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)
“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 ...
Engstrom , Richard L. , and Michael D. McDonald . 1981. “ The Election of Blacks to City Councils : Clarifying the Impact of ... Farr , Thomas A. 1995a . “ Brief of Appellants Pope , et al . on the Merits ” ( brief in U.S. Supreme Court ...
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 ...