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  • The Conservative Revolution of Antonin Scalia

    by David A Schultz, Howard Schweber, Mary Welek Atwell, Charles F. Jacobs, Maureen Stobb, Jesse Merriam, Stephen M. Feldman, Gerard Michael D’Emilio, Ryan Black0, Ryan J. Owens1, Christopher J. Krewson2, Alexander Denison3, Justin Wedeking4, James Staab5, Henry L. Chambers Jr.6, Christopher E. Smith7, Ronald Kahn8, Tim Johnson9 ...
    Many hoped or feared that Antonin Scalia’s appointment to the Supreme Court in 1986 would guarantee a conservative counter-revolution that would reverse the liberal jurisprudence of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren and which was continued to some extent under the Burger Court though the influence of Justice William Brennan. In addition, President Reagan described Scalia’s ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • John Paul Stevens

    Defender of Rights in Criminal Justice

    by Christopher E. Smith ...
    This book examines the judicial opinions and criminal justice policy impact of Justice John Paul Stevens, the U.S. Supreme Court’s most prolific opinion author during his 35-year career on the nation’s highest court. Although Justice Stevens, a Republican appointee of President Gerald Ford, had a professional reputation as a corporate antitrust law attorney, he immediately asserted himself as the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Rehnquist Court and Criminal Punishment

    by Christopher E. Smith ...
    First Published in 1997. Organised in a easily readable format this book on the Supreme Court and punishment takes the reader through the sentencing and incarceration issues that have been so controversial and yet, so relatively unchanged over the years. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Supreme Court and the Development of Law

    Through the Prism of Prisoners’ Rights

    by Christopher E. Smith ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book illuminates the decision-making processes of the US Supreme court through an examination of several prisoners' rights cases. In 1964, the Supreme Court declined to hear prisoners’ claims about religious freedom. In 2014, the Supreme Court heard a case that led to the justices’ unanimous endorsement of a Muslim prisoner’s religious right to grow a beard despite objections from prison ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Rehnquist Court and Criminal Justice

    by John D. Burrow, Mark S. Hurwitz, Charles F. Jacobs, Scott P. Johnson, Ashlyn Kuersten, Lee Ruffin Wilson, Michael A. McCall, Joyce A. Baugh, Madhavi M. McCall ...
    This book examines the criminal justice decisions of the Rehnquist Court era through analyses of individual justices' contributions to the development of law and policy. The Rehnquist Court era (1986-2005) produced a period of opportunity for the U.S. Supreme Court's judicial conservatives to reshape constitutional law concerning rights in the criminal justice process. It was an era in which the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • The Case Against the Supreme Court

    by Erwin Chemerinsky ...
    A preeminent constitutional scholar offers a hard-hitting analysis of the Supreme Court over the last two hundred yearsMost Americans share the perception that the Supreme Court is objective, but Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the country’s leading constitutional lawyers, shows that this is nonsense and always has been. The Court is made up of fallible individuals who base decisions on their own biases ... Read more

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  • Uncertain Justice

    The Roberts Court and the Constitution

    by Laurence Tribe, Joshua Matz ...
    "Illuminating. . . . [Tribe and Matz] offer well-crafted overviews of key cases decided by the Roberts Court [and] chart the Supreme Court's conservative path." — Chicago TribuneFrom Citizens United to its momentous rulings regarding Obamacare and gay marriage, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has profoundly affected American life. Yet the court remains a mysterious institution, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • American Original

    The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

    by Joan Biskupic ...
    The first full-scale biography of the Supreme Court's most provocative—and influential—justiceIf the U.S. Supreme Court teaches us anything, it is that almost everything is open to interpretation. Almost. But what's inarguable is that, while the Court has witnessed a succession of larger-than-life jurists in its two-hundred-year-plus history, it has never seen the likes of Supreme Court Justice ... Read more

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  • The U.S. Supreme Court

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Linda Greenhouse ...
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    For thirty years, Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction, chronicled the activities of the justices as the Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times. In this concise volume, she draws on her deep knowledge of the court's history as well as of its written and unwritten rules to show the reader how the Supreme Court really ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Conservative Assault on the Constitution

    by Erwin Chemerinsky ...
    Over the last few decades, the Supreme Court and the federal appellate courts have undergone a dramatic shift to the right, the result of a determined effort by right-wing lawmakers and presidents to reinterpret the Constitution by reshaping the judiciary. Conservative activist justices have narrowed the scope of the Constitution, denying its protections to millions of Americans, exactly as the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Scalia

    A Court of One

    by Bruce Allen Murphy ...
    “[Murphy’s] biography of Justice Scalia is patient and thorough, alive both intellectually and morally….Functions as an MRI scan of one of the most influential conservative thinkers of the twentieth century.” (The New York Times): An authoritative, incisive and deeply researched book about of the most controversial Supreme Court justice of our time.Scalia: A Court of One is the compelling story of ... Read more

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  • The Tyranny of Tolerance

    A Sitting Judge Breaks the Code of Silence to Expose the Liberal Judicial Assault

    by Robert H. Dierker Jr. ...
    For the first time, a sitting judge blows the whistle on America’s out-of-control courts.A judge for more than twenty years, Robert Dierker has enjoyed a distinguished legal career. But now that career may be on the line. Why? Because he is breaking the code of silence that has long kept judges from speaking out to present a withering account of how radical liberals run roughshod over the ... Read more

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