The Rehnquist Court And The Constitution

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 : Tinsley E. Yarbrough
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195146034
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rehnquist Court and the Constitution written by Tinsley E. Yarbrough and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughtful, wide-ranging, and intelligently written, this volume is an insightful look at the Rehnquist Court and its impact on law and American life.

Author : Laurence Tribe
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805099093
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncertain Justice written by Laurence Tribe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment of how the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts is significantly influencing the nation's laws and reinterpreting the Constitution includes in-depth analysis of recent rulings and their implications.

Author : Martin H. Belsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190287454
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rehnquist Court written by Martin H. Belsky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1986, the Supreme Court's leading conservative, William H. Rehnquist, labeled by Newsweek as "The Court's Mr. Right," was made Chief Justice. Almost immediately, legal scholars, practitioners, and pundits began questioning what his influence would be, and whether he would remake our constitutional corpus in his own image. Would the center hold, or fold? This collected volume, edited by Martin H. Belsky, is the third in a series which includes The Warren Court and The Burger Court, both edited by Bernard Schwartz. It gathers together a distinguished group of scholars, journalists, judges, and practitioners to reflect on the fifteen-year impact of the Rehnquist Court. The work provides an overview of the Rehnquist Court's influence to date, examines in detail the seminal issues confronted by the Court, and places the Court in broad historical perspective. Subjects discussed include First Amendment rights and cyberspace, criminal justice reform, the Court's pattern of constitutional interpretation, the international impact of the Rehnquist Court, and the Supreme Court's increasing interaction with state constitutional law. A comprehensive look at the significant shifts in constitutional jurisprudence under Rehnquist's leadership, this volume illustrates how the Rehnquist Court has brought us almost full-circle from the judge-made revolution of the Warren Court. A must-have for all students of the Court and legal history, this book contains fascinating insights into one of the century's most controversial courts and a legacy still in the making.

Author : Sue Davis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400859875
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justice Rehnquist and the Constitution written by Sue Davis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of the decision making of William H. Rehnquist from the beginning of his tenure as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1971 until he was nominated to be Chief Justice in 1986 presents a refreshing new perspective on the Burger Court's most conservative member. The common assessment of Rehnquist's career on the Supreme Court is that he has tried to put his own political agenda into effect--deciding as he wishes and justifying it later. Davis disputes that view through careful, insightful analysis of his opinions, his votes, and his public speeches. She argues that Rehnquist does, indeed, have a judicial philosophy--one that has legal positivism at its core. By examining the interaction between the facets of that judicial philosophy and Rehnquist's particular ordering of values, Davis reveals the coherence of his decision making. The author finds that Rehnquist's hierarchy of values gives paramount importance to state autonomy, or the "new federalism." He sees the protection of private property as secondary to the significance of federalism, followed, finally, by the protection of individual rights. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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 : 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."

Author : Marcia Coyle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145162753X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roberts Court written by Marcia Coyle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roberts Court, seven years old, sits at the center of a constitutional maelstrom. Through four landmark decisions, Marcia Coyle, one of the most prestigious experts on the Supreme Court, reveals the fault lines in the conservative-dominated Court led by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. Seven minutes after President Obama put his signature to a landmark national health care insurance program, a lawyer in the office of Florida GOP attorney general Bill McCollum hit a computer key, sparking a legal challenge to the new law that would eventually reach the nation’s highest court. Health care is only the most visible and recent front in a battle over the meaning and scope of the U.S. Constitution. The battleground is the United States Supreme Court, and one of the most skilled, insightful, and trenchant of its observers takes us close up to watch it in action. Marcia Coyle’s brilliant inside account of the High Court captures four landmark decisions—concerning health care, money in elections, guns at home, and race in schools. Coyle examines how those cases began—the personalities and conflicts that catapulted them onto the national scene—and how they ultimately exposed the great divides among the justices, such as the originalists versus the pragmatists on guns and the Second Amendment, and corporate speech versus human speech in the controversial Citizens United campaign case. Most dramatically, her analysis shows how dedicated conservative lawyers and groups are strategizing to find cases and crafting them to bring up the judicial road to the Supreme Court with an eye on a receptive conservative majority. The Roberts Court offers a ringside seat at the struggle to lay down the law of the land.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of the Rehnquist Court written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: