This book examines the evolution of the new rough-and-tumble politics of judicial elections by focusing on Texas, a bellwether for the new judicial selection politics in America.
Drawing on a sweeping survey of litigation regarding abortion, affirmative action, gay rights, and gun rights during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama eras, Keck argues that each of these stories captures part of the significance of courts in ...
FEC, and Shelby County v. Holder. This book provides a thorough overview of two decades of election law cases and sheds light on the impact these decisions have had on remaking America’s electoral institutions.
The importance of the questions addressed, the breadth of the data collected, and the unorthodox conclusions offered make this a significant book for political scientists, judges, lawyers, and public officials.
The must-read summary of Christopher L. Eisgruber's book: “The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process”.
He was a partisan, waging a quiet, constant battle to imbue the Court with a deep conservatism favoring government power over individual rights. The story of how and why Rehnquist rose to power is as compelling as it is improbable.
The book addresses authoritarian legacies of politically motivated justice and its unwritten practices that have re-emerged in the recent trials related to both political and ordinary criminal charges against prominent opposition leaders in ...
A Guide to Judging RBG's Successor Alan Dershowitz ... Out Israel for Boycott Is Anti-Semitic and AntiPeace Trumped Up: How Criminalization of Political Differences Endangers Democracy Electile Dysfunction: A Guide for Unaroused Voters ...
Potter Stewart 71 17 Byron White Voice vote Arthur J. Goldberg Voice vote Abe Fortas Voice vote Thurgood Marshall 69 ... F. Powell Jr. 89 1 William H. Rehnquist 68 26 John Paul Stevens 98 0 Sandra Day O'Connor 99 0 William H. Rehnquist ...
410 U.S. 959 (1973); Epstein and Knight, The Choices Justices Make, 131–35. ... Important treatments of the issue include Lawrence G. Sager, Justice in Plainclothes: A Theory of American Constitutional Practice (New Haven: Yale ...