The Rehnquist Court And Civil Rights

Author : Abraham L. Davis
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0803972202
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Supreme Court, Race, and Civil Rights written by Abraham L. Davis and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1995-07-25 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the first law textbook to provide a comprehensive examination of the Supreme Court's institutional commitment to equality over a time span of more than 190 years. Filling the void of literature in this area, this long-awaited volume incorporates information from the disciplines of law, political science, and history to provide the student with a thorough analysis of race and law from the perspective of politically disadvantaged groups. Carefully selected cases stimulate classroom discussion and at the same time cultivate competence in reading actual Supreme Court rulings. Accessible and flexible, this textbook affords professors and instructors an opportunity to pick and choose from the essays and cases for each historical period. The authors instill in students a deeper appreciation of the multicultural component of ongoing struggles for equality within the American context. Written specifically for undergraduate, graduate, and law school courses that emphasize civil rights/race and the law, The Supreme Court, Race, and Civil Rights stands alone as an outstanding textbook.

Author : D. F. B. Tucker
Publisher : Dartmouth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rehnquist Court and Civil Rights written by D. F. B. Tucker and published by Dartmouth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has a distinctive dualist government system whereby the elected government must share its responsibilities with parties that have no mandate from the people. It is seen as a good feature of the American system that the party in power cannot always prevent others from securing policies it may disapprove. The Supreme Court is said to be a co-equal branch of government, one institutional mechanism by means of which counter-majoritarian, dualist principles are actualized. This kind of leadership can be seen to be desirable between 1955-1986 when the Supreme Court, under Chief Justices Earl Warren and Warren Burger used judicial authority to expand the protection offered to individuals and groups by the Bill of Rights. For example, it redefined the separation of Church and State doctrine to eliminate prayer from public schools, recognized privacy as a right to free sexuality from the shackles of religious morality and to forbid state governments from preventing pregnant women from securing abortions.

Author : James F. Simon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439143250
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Center Holds written by James F. Simon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Center Holds provides an intimate look at who the Supreme Court justices are, how they have made critical decisions, and why, ultimately, the Rehnquist Revolution failed. Focusing on four key areas of civil rights and liberties—racial discrimination, abortion, criminal law, and First Amendment freedoms—The Center Holds provides an in-depth look at the Supreme Court documents that illustrate the battle between the old liberal order and emerging conservative majority, beginning in the early 1980s. James F. Simon, a former Time correspondent and contributing editor, ex-dean of New York Law School, and nationally recognized scholar of constitutional law, examines key decisions on civil rights and civil liberties in a readable, intimate look at some key Supreme Court Cases and includes absorbing descriptions of confidential memos and drafts gleaned from sources from within the court.

Author : Robert A. Williams
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452907560
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Like a Loaded Weapon written by Robert A. Williams and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert A. Williams Jr. boldly exposes the ongoing legal force of the racist language directed at Indians in American society. Fueled by well-known negative racial stereotypes of Indian savagery and cultural inferiority, this language, Williams contends, has functioned “like a loaded weapon” in the Supreme Court’s Indian law decisions. Beginning with Chief Justice John Marshall’s foundational opinions in the early nineteenth century and continuing today in the judgments of the Rehnquist Court, Williams shows how undeniably racist language and precedent are still used in Indian law to justify the denial of important rights of property, self-government, and cultural survival to Indians. Building on the insights of Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, and Frantz Fanon, Williams argues that racist language has been employed by the courts to legalize a uniquely American form of racial dictatorship over Indian tribes by the U.S. government. Williams concludes with a revolutionary proposal for reimagining the rights of American Indians in international law, as well as strategies for compelling the current Supreme Court to confront the racist origins of Indian law and for challenging bigoted ways of talking, thinking, and writing about American Indians. Robert A. Williams Jr. is professor of law and American Indian studies at the James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona. A member of the Lumbee Indian Tribe, he is author of The American Indian in Western Legal Thought: The Discourses of Conquest and coauthor of Federal Indian Law.

Author : Herman Schwartz
Publisher : Hill & Wang
ISBN 13 : 9780809080748
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rehnquist Court written by Herman Schwartz and published by Hill & Wang. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incisive commentary on recent Supreme Court decisions from America's foremost constitutional scholars For nearly all his tenure as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, William Rehnquist has enjoyed the support of a slim but usually solid majority of his fellow justices. With it he has been able to effect a dramatic shift to the right in many vital areas of constitutional law. Displaying a judicial activism not seen since the 1930s, Rehnquist and his allies, in a series of 5-4 decisions, have undermined civil rights and weakened the federal government's ability to respond to pressing social needs. As the Rehnquist court concludes its fifteenth term, the well-known constitutional authority Herman Schwartz has assembled seventeen distinguished legal scholars to evaluate its record on the many controversial issues that have come before it. Among them are Stephen Bright on capital punishment, Charles Ogletree on criminal procedure, Norman Redlich on religion, Allan Morrison and David Vladeck on regulation, and John Mackenzie on Bush v. Gore. The book concludes with an overall reflection on Rehnquist's legacy by Tom Wicker.

Author : Martin H. Belsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195148398
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rehnquist Court written by Martin H. Belsky and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1986, the Supreme Court's leading conservative, William H. Rehnquist was made Chief Justice. Almost immediately, legal scholars, practitioners, and pundits began questioning what his influence would be, and whether he would remake US constitutional corpus in his own image. This collected volume gathers together a distinguished group of scholars, journalists, judges, and practitioners to reflect on the fifteen-year impact of the Rehnquist Court.

Author : Mark V. Tushnet
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393058680
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Court Divided written by Mark V. Tushnet and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this authoritative reckoning with the eighteen-year record of the Rehnquist Court, Georgetown law professor Mark Tushnet reveals how the decisions of nine deeply divided justices have left the future of the Court; and the nation; hanging in the balance. Many have assumed that the chasm on the Court has been between its liberals and its conservatives. In reality, the division was between those in tune with the modern post-Reagan Republican Party and those who, though considered to be in the Court's center, represent an older Republican tradition. As a result, the Court has modestly promoted the agenda of today's economic conservatives, but has regularly defeated the agenda of social issues conservatives; while paving the way for more radically conservative path in the future.

Author : Robert Langran
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820461625
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Supreme Court written by Robert Langran and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential historical overview begins by noting that the Supreme Court is «arguably the least known and understood of the three branches of government». Robert W. Langran's innovative approach will do much to provide students with a good understanding of the changing role and accomplishments of the Court from its inception to its latest decisions. This book discusses the most important decisions of the Court in chronological rather than topical order, illustrating how the cases fit into an historical timeframe as well as what roles the most influential justices played. In an easy, conversational style, Robert W. Langran discusses how the Court was formed, how justices are selected, how the Court selects its cases, and the broad shifts of the Court with regard to doctrine and attention to the popular and governmental interests of each period. Students gain important insights into why each Court voted the way it did and how those decisions influenced the votes of future Courts. The Supreme Court, an excellent supplementary text for undergraduate classes in American government and American history, as well as introductory classes in political science, contains useful appendixes listing all justices and all cases discussed.

Author : David G. Savage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turning Right written by David G. Savage and published by . This book was released on 1992-04-24 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a portrait of the Supreme Court justices since 1986.

Author : Earl M. Maltz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rehnquist Justice written by Earl M. Maltz and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With seven of its justices appointed by Republican presidents, today's Supreme Court has significantly altered America's legal landscape since 1986 by tilting constitutional jurisprudence to the right. That was the goal of Presidents Reagan and Bush in filling court vacancies and has been felt in cases related to federalism, economic rights, and affirmative action. However, liberal issues such as abortion have moved only marginally to the right, while rulings by the Court on school prayer and gay rights have moved constitutional doctrine slightly to the left. In this collection of original articles, prominent constitutional scholars are joined by new voices from the cutting edge of academia to subject the Rehnquist Court to closer scrutiny and to show that its brand of conservatism is less extreme than many have supposed. Reflecting views across the political spectrum, the contributors help readers understand the Court dynamic, its constrained conservatism, and the forces that shape constitutional law in general. As these authors show, the overall pattern of decision-making in the Rehnquist era cannot be attributed to any single, unified approach to constitutional analysis. Instead, today's Court can only be understood as the product of a complex interaction among individual justices, each with an idiosyncratic view of the proper interpretation of the Constitution and the role of the Court in the American political system. These provocative essays are designed to provide readers with insight into this interaction by focusing on each member of the bench. From the staunch conservatism of Clarence Thomas, to the "accommodationism" of Sandra Day O'Connor, to the "liberal constitutionalism" of David Souter, the essays analyze the unique approach of each justice to interpreting the Constitution. They also show that the current justices are the product of a nomination and confirmation process that has undergone a major transformation in recent decades one which favors experienced, often unknown jurists over high-profile public servants. By concentrating attention on its members, "Rehnquist Justice" allows us to better understand the Supreme Court as a whole. And by assessing today's judiciary in light of a public philosophy that looks askance at government, it shows us that the Supreme Court has truly become a mirror of its times."