LEADER 03771nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910789761803321 005 20230725032156.0 010 $a0-8047-7561-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804775618 035 $a(CKB)2670000000108182 035 $a(EBL)752420 035 $a(OCoLC)746747207 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000564926 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12252676 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000564926 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10527618 035 $a(PQKB)11211207 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC752420 035 $a(DE-B1597)564485 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804775618 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL752420 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10496731 035 $a(OCoLC)1178770310 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000108182 100 $a20100317d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAll judges are political-- except when they are not$b[electronic resource] $eacceptable hypocrisies and the rule of law /$fKeith J. Bybee 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford Law Books$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (191 p.) 225 1 $aThe cultural lives of law 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-5311-3 311 $a0-8047-5312-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [149]-166) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tI. Legal Realism: Dead and Alive --$tII. Elements of Common Courtesy --$tIII. The Rule of Law as the Rules of Etiquette --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tTable of Cases --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex --$tThe Cultural Lives of Law 330 $aWe live in an age where one person's judicial "activist" legislating from the bench is another's impartial arbiter fairly interpreting the law. After the Supreme Court ended the 2000 Presidential election with its decision in Bush v. Gore, many critics claimed that the justices had simply voted their political preferences. But Justice Clarence Thomas, among many others, disagreed and insisted that the Court had acted according to legal principle, stating: "I plead with you, that, whatever you do, don't try to apply the rules of the political world to this institution; they do not apply." The legitimacy of our courts rests on their capacity to give broadly acceptable answers to controversial questions. Yet Americans are divided in their beliefs about whether our courts operate on unbiased legal principle or political interest. Comparing law to the practice of common courtesy, Keith Bybee explains how our courts not only survive under these suspicions of hypocrisy, but actually depend on them. Law, like courtesy, furnishes a means of getting along. It frames disputes in collectively acceptable ways, and it is a habitual practice, drummed into the minds of citizens by popular culture and formal institutions. The rule of law, thus, is neither particularly fair nor free of paradoxical tensions, but it endures. Although pervasive public skepticism raises fears of judicial crisis and institutional collapse, such skepticism is also an expression of how our legal system ordinarily functions. 410 0$aCultural lives of law. 606 $aJudicial process$zUnited States 606 $aPolitical questions and judicial power$zUnited States 606 $aRule of law$zUnited States 615 0$aJudicial process 615 0$aPolitical questions and judicial power 615 0$aRule of law 676 $a347.73/12 700 $aBybee$b Keith J.$f1965-$0870011 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789761803321 996 $aAll judges are political-- except when they are not$93824821 997 $aUNINA