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431 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Karen Hollander is a celebrated attorney who recently removed herself from consideration for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her reasons have their roots in 1968, an episode she's managed to keep secret for more than forty years. Now, with the imminent publication of her memoir, she's about to let the world in on that shocking secret, as soon as she can track down the answers to a few crucial last questions.
3) 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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231 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"It's a position Will Burleigh has worked toward his entire career -- a spot on the United States Supreme Court. With the support of his wife, Sarah, Will is excited at the prospect of sitting on the highest court of the nation. But when the confirmation process begins, things take a turn neither Will nor Sarah ever expected. After one of their close personal friends dies in a suspicious accident and they are attacked in their own home, Will and...
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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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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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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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