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2) Supreme conflict: the inside story of the struggle for control of the United States Supreme Court
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340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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English
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The brutal confirmation battles we saw over Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh are symptoms of a larger problem with our third branch of government, a problem that began long before Kavanaugh, Merrick Garland, Clarence Thomas, or even Robert Bork: the courts' own self-corruption, aiding and abetting the expansion of federal power. Ilya Shapiro, director of the Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies, takes readers inside...
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326 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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From renowned political theorist and Pulitzer Prize winner James MacGregor Burns, an illuminating critique of how an unstable, unaccountable, and frequently partisan Supreme Court has come to wield more power than the founding fathers ever intended.
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viii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"The author of The Butler presents a revelatory biography of the first African-American Supreme Court justice -- one of the giants of the civil rights movement, and one of the most transforming Supreme Court justices of the 20th century"--Novelist.
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xxix, 300 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"At the end of the Supreme Court's 2019-2020 term, the center was holding. The predictions that the Court would move irrevocably to the radical right hadn't come to pass, as the justices released surprisingly moderate opinions on cases involving abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, and how local governments could handle the pandemic, all shepherded by Chief Justice John Roberts. By the end of the 2020-2021 term, much about our the nation's highest court...
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375 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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In this definitive deep dive into the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, two women with extraordinary behind-the-scenes access--The Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway and Judicial Crisis Network senior counsel Carrie Severino--reveal what really happened and explore what the bitterly divisive hearings mean for the future of the Court and the battle for the soul of America.
"Justice Anthony Kennedy slipped out of the Supreme...
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viii, 310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"From the chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times, a richly detailed, news-breaking look at the unprecedented political fight over Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court vacancy and the seemingly irreversible dysfunction it triggered across all three branches in the nation's capital -- ultimately delivering us Trump, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh. The embodiment of American conservative thought and jurisprudence, Antonin Scalia cast an expansive shadow...
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