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Right Wing Justice: The Conservative Campaign to Take Over the Courts
by Herman Schwartz
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ISBN13: 9781560255666 |
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Right Wing Justice raises the alarm about the creeping conservative campaign to "pack" America's courts with judges more identified with their ideological affiliation than their skill or regard for the Constitution. The consequence is that the rule of law is taking a terrific beating from the Supreme Court. Who can forget the debacle of Election 2000? But the consequences of the campaign go far deeper than that, impinging on the daily lives of ordinary Americans who are at the receiving end of attempts to overturn or erode Supreme Court rulings on abortion, school prayer, civil rights, criminal justice, and economic regulation.
As the author shows, the problem does not end at the Supreme Court — it filters down to the lowers courts and circuits. Right Wing Justice gives an alarming account of how this has come to pass over the last two decades, how conservative activists hatched this strategy in the 1960s only to see it really come of age during the Reagan revolution and the successive Republican administrations.
Combining a scholar's sense of history with the immediacy of eyewitness testimony, Right Wing Justice will come not only as a sobering reading to many concerned Americans — but also as a call to wake-up.
Review:
"A measured denunciation....Read and weep — especially because there are few vacancies for a moderate administration to fill, so that for the foreseeable future, 'the judiciary will be permanently titled toward the extreme right.'" Kirkus Reviews
Review:
"There's a hot war going on between President Bush and the Senate Democrats, with the shape and fate of the federal judiciary at stake. In Right Wing Justice renowned legal scholar Herman Schwartz offers the background you need to understand what's happening, and why it matters to you." Tom Wicker,
former New York Times columnist,
and author of A Time to Die
Review:
"Herman Schwartz, a caustic critic of the of the judges nominated by Presidents Reagan, Bush and George W. Bush, has written a colorful, informative and highly entertaining brief in support of his case. Whatever side you are on, it is well worth the attention of all those interested in the courts." Lloyd Cutler,
Counsel to the President, 1979-80, 1994
Synopsis:
Schwartz raises the alarm about the creeping conservative campaign to "pack" America's courts with judges more identified with their ideological affiliation than their skill or regard for the Constitution.
Synopsis:
One of America's most brilliant activist lawyers challenges the conservative judiciary.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9781560255666
- Subtitle:
- The Conservative Campaign to Take Over the Courts
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Nation Books
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- Law
- Subject:
- Conservatism
- Subject:
- Judicial process
- Subject:
- Law and politics
- Subject:
- Courts - Supreme Court
- Subject:
- Government - U.S. Government
- Subject:
- Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism
- Subject:
- HISTORY / Modern/21st Century
- Subject:
- HIS037080
- Copyright:
- 2004
- Edition Description:
- First Trade Pap
- Series Volume:
- 210
- Publication Date:
- April 2004
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 432
- Dimensions:
- 8.20x5.50x.90 in. .93 lbs.
