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Supremely partisan, how raw politics tips the scales in the United States Supreme Court, James D. Zirin

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Supremely partisan, how raw politics tips the scales in the United States Supreme Court, James D. Zirin

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Supremely partisan

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

James D. Zirin

Sub title

how raw politics tips the scales in the United States Supreme Court

Summary

"On the eve of a presidential election that may determine the makeup of Supreme Court justices for decades to come, prominent attorney James D. Zirin argues that the Court has become increasingly partisan, rapidly making policy choices right and left on bases that have nothing to do with law or the Constitution. Zirin explains how we arrived at the present situation and looks at the current divide through its leading partisans: Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor on the left and Clarence Thomas and the late Antonin Scalia on the right. He also examines four of the Court's most controversial recent decisions: Hobby Lobby, Obamacare, gay marriage, and capital punishment, arguing that these politicized decisions threaten to undermine public confidence in the Supreme Court"--Book jacket

Table Of Contents

What the Supreme Court Is Supposed (and Not Supposed) to Do -- Identity Politics and the Partisan Court -- Religion and the Partisan Court -- Abortion and the Religious Test for Office -- Two of the Eighty-Nine WASP Male Justices : Marshall and Holmes -- John Marshall : Elaborating the Rule of Law -- Oliver Wendell Holmes : Elaborating the Rules for Free Speech -- Campaign Finance and Deregulation : Speech Unknown to Marshall and Holmes -- The Catholic Seat -- The Jewish Seat : Tradition, Tradition! -- And Goldberg Begat Fortas : End of the Jewish Seat -- The Supreme Court Tackles the Middle East : Is Jerusalem Part of Israel? -- The Female Seat and Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- The Black Seat : Finding The "Best Qualified" -- Thomas and Natural Law -- Thomas and the Voting Rights Act -- Thomas and Affirmative Action -- Antonin Scalia (1936-2016) : "More Catholic Than the Pope" -- Sonia Sotomayor : The Wise Latina Woman and Identity Politics -- Hobby Lobby : Religious Freedom v. Reproductive Rights -- The Obamacare Cases : The Chief Rides to the Rescue -- Gay Marriage : "The Times They Are A-Changin'" -- Capital Punishment : Death Is Different

Target audience

adult

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How raw politics tips the scales in the United States Supreme Court

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