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UNINA9910798574003321 |
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Zirin James D. |
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Titolo |
Supremely partisan : how raw politics tips the scales in the United States Supreme Court / / James D. Zirin ; foreword by Kermit Roosevelt |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 |
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[Place of distribution not identified] : , : National Book Network, , [date of distribution not identified] |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (254 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Political questions and judicial power - United States |
Judicial review - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Title Page; Foreword; Introduction; What the Supreme Court Is Supposed (and Not Supposed) to Do; Identity Politics and the Partisan Court; Religion and the Partisan Court; Two of the Eighty-Nine WASP Male Justices; The Catholic Seat; The Jewish Seat; And Goldberg Begat Fortas; The Supreme Court Tackles the Middle East; The Female Seat and Ruth Bader Ginsburg; The Black Seat; Antonin Scalia (1936-2016); Sonia Sotomayor; Hobby Lobby; The Obamacare Cases; Gay Marriage; Capital Punishment; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Index; About the Author |
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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 Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas on the right. He also examines four of the Court's most controversial |
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