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Lawless

How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes

by Leah Litman ...

Narrated by Leah Litman ...

Unabridged

7 hours 53 min

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Do you want to know why today’s Supreme Court rules like it does? Leah Litman has the answer, and it is one that people should know. It’s time to read this book!” —Los Angeles Review of Books“Leah Litman’s work leaves you fired up yet empowered to pay attention, ready to resist, and, frankly, hotter.” —Jonathan Van NessCrooked Media podcast host Leah Litman shines... ... Read more

$26.99 CAD

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Do you want to know why today’s Supreme Court rules like it does? Leah Litman has the answer, and it is one that people should know. It’s time to read this book!” —Los Angeles Review of Books“Leah Litman’s work leaves you fired up yet empowered to pay attention, ready to resist, and, frankly, hotter.” —Jonathan Van NessCrooked Media podcast host Leah Litman shines...
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SCOTUS Discussions June 2009

by PBS NewsHour ...

Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

Unabridged

8 min

Ray Suarez talks to Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal about the Supreme Court's decision on prisoners' legal rights to test DNA evidence after their convictions. ... Read more

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Ray Suarez talks to Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal about the Supreme Court's decision on prisoners' legal rights to test DNA evidence after their convictions.
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Video Games

by PBS NewsHour ...

Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

Unabridged

5 min

A Supreme Court case over whether minors should be able to access violent video games in California had the justices debating the definition of violence and the boundaries of the First Amendment.The lawyer for the state of California, who was advocating for a law banning the sale of violent video games to those under 18 years of age, told the court that the law has two goals. First, it’s intended ... Read more

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A Supreme Court case over whether minors should be able to access violent video games in California had the justices debating the definition of violence and the boundaries of the First Amendment.The lawyer for the state of California, who was advocating for a law banning the sale of violent video games to those under 18 years of age, told the court that the law has two goals. First, it’s intended
... Read more
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Court Clerk Terminology: A Guide for Court Clerks

by Sumitra Kumari ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Maxwell G ...

Unabridged

3 hours 7 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Unlock essential courtroom language with this Court Clerk Terminology: A Guide for Court Clerks book designed specifically for court clerks. Whether you are new to this role or want to deepen your understanding, this courtroom terminology book is your indispensable companion to navigating the complex world of legal proceedings.Inside, you'll find clear ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Unlock essential courtroom language with this Court Clerk Terminology: A Guide for Court Clerks book designed specifically for court clerks. Whether you are new to this role or want to deepen your understanding, this courtroom terminology book is your indispensable companion to navigating the complex world of legal proceedings.Inside, you'll find clear
... Read more
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The Power of Dignity

How Transforming Justice Can Heal Our Communities

by Judge Victoria Pratt ...

Narrated by Judge Victoria Pratt, Cary Hite, Chanté McCormick ...

Unabridged

8 hours 37 min

A renowned judge wonders: What would criminal justice look like if we put respect at the center?The Black and Latina daughter of a working-class family, Victoria Pratt learned to treat everyone with dignity, no matter their background. When she became Newark Municipal Court’s chief judge, she knew well the inequities that poor, mentally ill, Black, and brown people faced in the criminal justice ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

A renowned judge wonders: What would criminal justice look like if we put respect at the center?The Black and Latina daughter of a working-class family, Victoria Pratt learned to treat everyone with dignity, no matter their background. When she became Newark Municipal Court’s chief judge, she knew well the inequities that poor, mentally ill, Black, and brown people faced in the criminal justice
... Read more
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Justice Breyer

by PBS NewsHour ...

Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

Unabridged

9 min

Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer talks to Jeffrey Brown about his new book, Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View, the role and responsibilities of the high court, and the shift in dynamics that a new justice can bring. ... Read more

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Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer talks to Jeffrey Brown about his new book, Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View, the role and responsibilities of the high court, and the shift in dynamics that a new justice can bring.
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In Two Minds

Shocking true stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist

by Dr Sohom Das ...

Narrated by Dr Sohom Das ...

Unabridged

10 hours 24 min

Shocking, eye-opening and grimly fascinating, these are the true stories, patients and cases that have characterised a career spent treating mentally disordered offenders.Listen to the end of the audiobook for an exclusive bonus chapter, written and read by the author.As a forensic psychiatrist, it's Dr Das's job to treat and rehabilitate what the tabloids might call the 'criminally insane', many ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

Shocking, eye-opening and grimly fascinating, these are the true stories, patients and cases that have characterised a career spent treating mentally disordered offenders.Listen to the end of the audiobook for an exclusive bonus chapter, written and read by the author.As a forensic psychiatrist, it's Dr Das's job to treat and rehabilitate what the tabloids might call the 'criminally insane', many
... Read more
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Interview with Sandra Day O'Connor

by PBS NewsHour ...

Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

Unabridged

9 min

Judy Woodruff speaks to former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor about her efforts to improve literacy for students, judicial elections and today's court. ... Read more

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Judy Woodruff speaks to former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor about her efforts to improve literacy for students, judicial elections and today's court.
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A People's History of the Supreme Court

The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution

by Peter Irons ...

Narrated by David Drummond ...

Unabridged

28 hours 32 min

A comprehensive history of the people and cases that have changed history, this is the definitive account of the nation's highest courtRecent changes in the Supreme Court have placed the venerable institution at the forefront of current affairs, making this comprehensive and engaging work as timely as ever. In the tradition of Howard Zinn's classic A People's History of the United States, Peter ... Read more

$41.99 CAD

A comprehensive history of the people and cases that have changed history, this is the definitive account of the nation's highest courtRecent changes in the Supreme Court have placed the venerable institution at the forefront of current affairs, making this comprehensive and engaging work as timely as ever. In the tradition of Howard Zinn's classic A People's History of the United States, Peter
... Read more
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Making Our Democracy Work

A Judge's View

by Justice Stephen Breyer ...

Narrated by Luis Moreno ...

Unabridged

10 hours 16 min

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer delivers an impassioned argument for the proper role of America's highest judicial body. Examining historic and contemporary decisions by the Court, Breyer highlights the rulings that have bolstered public confidence as well as the missteps that have triggered distrust. What emerges is a unique approach-certain to be admired for years to come-to interpreting ... Read more

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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer delivers an impassioned argument for the proper role of America's highest judicial body. Examining historic and contemporary decisions by the Court, Breyer highlights the rulings that have bolstered public confidence as well as the missteps that have triggered distrust. What emerges is a unique approach-certain to be admired for years to come-to interpreting
... Read more
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Making the Supreme Court

The Politics of Appointments, 1930-2020

by Charles M. Cameron, Jonathan P. Kastellec ...

Narrated by Lee Goettl ...

Unabridged

15 hours 54 min

Appointments to the United States Supreme Court are now central events in American political life. However, this has not always been the case. As late as the middle of the twentieth century, presidents invested little time and effort in finding and vetting nominees. Media coverage was desultory, public opinion was largely non-existent, and the justices often voted independently and erratically.In ... Read more

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Appointments to the United States Supreme Court are now central events in American political life. However, this has not always been the case. As late as the middle of the twentieth century, presidents invested little time and effort in finding and vetting nominees. Media coverage was desultory, public opinion was largely non-existent, and the justices often voted independently and erratically.In
... Read more
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The Agenda

How a Republican Supreme Court is Reshaping America

by Ian Millhiser ...

Narrated by David H. Lawrence XVII ...

Series series Columbia Global Reports
Unabridged

3 hours 42 min

From 2011, when Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives, until the present, Congress enacted hardly any major legislation outside of the tax law President Trump signed in 2017. In the same period, the Supreme Court dismantled much of America's campaign finance law, severely weakened the Voting Rights Act, permitted states to opt-out of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid ... Read more

$13.50 CAD

From 2011, when Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives, until the present, Congress enacted hardly any major legislation outside of the tax law President Trump signed in 2017. In the same period, the Supreme Court dismantled much of America's campaign finance law, severely weakened the Voting Rights Act, permitted states to opt-out of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid
... Read more
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The Most Dangerous Branch

Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution

by David A. Kaplan ...

Narrated by Dan Woren ...

Unabridged

16 hours 35 min

In the bestselling tradition of The Nine and The Brethren, The Most Dangerous Branch takes us inside the secret world of the Supreme Court. David A. Kaplan, the former legal affairs editor of Newsweek, shows how the justices subvert the role of the other branches of government—and how we’ve come to accept it at our peril.With the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Court has never before ... Read more

$34.00 CAD

In the bestselling tradition of The Nine and The Brethren, The Most Dangerous Branch takes us inside the secret world of the Supreme Court. David A. Kaplan, the former legal affairs editor of Newsweek, shows how the justices subvert the role of the other branches of government—and how we’ve come to accept it at our peril.With the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Court has never before
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Shortlisted

Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court

by Renee Knake Jefferson, Hannah Brenner Johnson ...

Narrated by Kitty Hendrix ...

Unabridged

8 hours 11 min

The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered—but not selected—for the US Supreme CourtIn 1981, after almost two centuries of exclusively male appointments, Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female Supreme Court Justice of the United States, a significant historical moment and a symbolic triumph for supporters of women's rights. Most do not know, however, about the ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered—but not selected—for the US Supreme CourtIn 1981, after almost two centuries of exclusively male appointments, Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female Supreme Court Justice of the United States, a significant historical moment and a symbolic triumph for supporters of women's rights. Most do not know, however, about the
... Read more
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The Challenge

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power

by Jonathan Mahler ...

Narrated by William Hughes ...

Unabridged

11 hours 4 min

In November 2001, a thirty-one-year-old Yemeni man named Salim Ahmed Hamdan was captured near the Pakistan border and turned over to US forces in Afghanistan. After confessing to being Osama bin Laden’s driver, Hamdan was transferred to Guantánamo Bay and designated for trial before a special military tribunal.The Pentagon assigned a young military defense lawyer, Lieutenant Commander Charles ... Read more

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In November 2001, a thirty-one-year-old Yemeni man named Salim Ahmed Hamdan was captured near the Pakistan border and turned over to US forces in Afghanistan. After confessing to being Osama bin Laden’s driver, Hamdan was transferred to Guantánamo Bay and designated for trial before a special military tribunal.The Pentagon assigned a young military defense lawyer, Lieutenant Commander Charles
... Read more
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Saving Nine

The Fight Against the Left's Audacious Plan to Pack the Supreme Court and Destroy American Liberty

by Mike Lee ...

Narrated by James Edward Thomas ...

Unabridged

6 hours 45 min

In this national bestseller, discover how the left’s partisan push to pack the Supreme Court with liberal justices has fully migrated from the fringes into the mainstream of Democratic politics.It wasn’t long ago that liberal icons, including the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, were against the idea of overhauling the court for political gain. But now, in the Biden era, more and ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

In this national bestseller, discover how the left’s partisan push to pack the Supreme Court with liberal justices has fully migrated from the fringes into the mainstream of Democratic politics.It wasn’t long ago that liberal icons, including the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, were against the idea of overhauling the court for political gain. But now, in the Biden era, more and
... Read more
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Retired Supreme Court Justice Stevens

by PBS NewsHour ...

Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

Unabridged

9 min

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens talks to Judy Woodruff about his new book, Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution. In his book, the 94-year-old liberal justice calls for major changes to the Constitution on issues such as the death penalty, firearms, redistricting and campaign finance. ... Read more

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Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens talks to Judy Woodruff about his new book, Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution. In his book, the 94-year-old liberal justice calls for major changes to the Constitution on issues such as the death penalty, firearms, redistricting and campaign finance.
... Read more
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Shepherds and Butchers

by Chris Marnewick ...

Narrated by Mr Peter Noble ...

Unabridged

16 hours 57 min

Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Shepherds and Butchers by Chris Marnewick, read by Peter Nobel.South Africa, 1987. Apartheid. When Leon, a white 19-year-old prison guard working on death row commits an inexplicable act of violence, killing seven black men in a hail of bullets, the outcome of the trial - and the court’s sentence - seems a foregone conclusion ... Read more

$22.99 CAD

Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Shepherds and Butchers by Chris Marnewick, read by Peter Nobel.South Africa, 1987. Apartheid. When Leon, a white 19-year-old prison guard working on death row commits an inexplicable act of violence, killing seven black men in a hail of bullets, the outcome of the trial - and the court’s sentence - seems a foregone conclusion
... Read more
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Packing the Court

The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court

by James MacGregor Burns ...

Narrated by Norman Dietz ...

Unabridged

9 hours 50 min

For decades, James MacGregor Burns has been one of the great masters of the study of power and leadership in America. Now he turns his eye to an institution of government that he believes has become more powerful—and more partisan—than the Founding Fathers ever intended: the Supreme Court. Much as we would like to believe that the Court remains aloof from ideological politics, Packing the Court ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

For decades, James MacGregor Burns has been one of the great masters of the study of power and leadership in America. Now he turns his eye to an institution of government that he believes has become more powerful—and more partisan—than the Founding Fathers ever intended: the Supreme Court. Much as we would like to believe that the Court remains aloof from ideological politics, Packing the Court
... Read more
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Dissent and the Supreme Court

Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue

by Melvin I. Urofsky ...

Narrated by Dan Woren ...

Unabridged

19 hours 23 min

From the admired judicial authority, author of Louis D. Brandeis (“Remarkable”—Anthony Lewis, The New York Review of Books; “Monumental”—Alan M. Dershowitz, The New York Times Book Review), Division and Discord, and Supreme Decisions—Melvin Urofsky’s major new book looks at the role of dissent in the Supreme Court and the meaning of the Constitution through the greatest and longest lasting public ... Read more

$35.50 CAD

From the admired judicial authority, author of Louis D. Brandeis (“Remarkable”—Anthony Lewis, The New York Review of Books; “Monumental”—Alan M. Dershowitz, The New York Times Book Review), Division and Discord, and Supreme Decisions—Melvin Urofsky’s major new book looks at the role of dissent in the Supreme Court and the meaning of the Constitution through the greatest and longest lasting public
... Read more
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Last Branch Standing

A Potentially Surprising, Occasionally Witty Journey Inside Today's Supreme Court

by Sarah Isgur ...

Narrated by Sarah Isgur ...

Unabridged

11 hours 23 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A myth-busting glimpse into the inner workings of the Supreme Court, revealing what we get wrong about the Roberts Court, what the justices' clerks gossip about, and how to fix a court in crisis—from the popular ABC news pundit and top legal podcaster"Isgur has all your answers in these smart, snappy, clear-eyed pages.”—Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ... Read more

$30.99 CAD

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A myth-busting glimpse into the inner workings of the Supreme Court, revealing what we get wrong about the Roberts Court, what the justices' clerks gossip about, and how to fix a court in crisis—from the popular ABC news pundit and top legal podcaster"Isgur has all your answers in these smart, snappy, clear-eyed pages.”—Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
... Read more
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Beyond the Verdict: Navigating the Appeals Process to Fight for Justice

by S Williams ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Alistair G ...

Unabridged

2 hours 31 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In an era where trust in the judicial system is increasingly tested, Beyond the Verdict serves as a vital guide to understanding and reforming the appeals process—a cornerstone of equitable justice. This groundbreaking book delves into critical issues such as wrongful convictions , procedural fairness , and systemic biases , offering readers a ... Read more

$13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In an era where trust in the judicial system is increasingly tested, Beyond the Verdict serves as a vital guide to understanding and reforming the appeals process—a cornerstone of equitable justice. This groundbreaking book delves into critical issues such as wrongful convictions , procedural fairness , and systemic biases , offering readers a
... Read more
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History of Supreme Court Vacancies

by PBS NewsHour ...

Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

Unabridged

6 min

In a prelude to the expected battle over the next Supreme Court justice nomination, an historian explains the selection and confirmation process and the past battles between Congress and the president. ... Read more

$1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

In a prelude to the expected battle over the next Supreme Court justice nomination, an historian explains the selection and confirmation process and the past battles between Congress and the president.
... Read more
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Machine See, Machine Do

How Technology Mirrors Bias in Our Criminal Justice System

by Patrick K. Lin ...

Narrated by William Slammon ...

Unabridged

5 hours 45 min

“When today’s technology relies on yesterday’s data, it will simply mirror our past mistakes and biases.”AI and other high-tech tools embed and reinforce America’s history of prejudice and exclusion — even when they are used with the best intentions. Patrick K. Lin’s Machine See, Machine Do: How Technology Mirrors Bias in Our Criminal Justice System takes a deep and thorough look into the use of ... Read more

$20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

“When today’s technology relies on yesterday’s data, it will simply mirror our past mistakes and biases.”AI and other high-tech tools embed and reinforce America’s history of prejudice and exclusion — even when they are used with the best intentions. Patrick K. Lin’s Machine See, Machine Do: How Technology Mirrors Bias in Our Criminal Justice System takes a deep and thorough look into the use of
... Read more

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