Scalia : a court of one / Bruce Allen Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, Bruce Allen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scalia, Antonin, 1936-2016.

Scalia, Antonin.

United States. Supreme Court.

Judges--United States--Biography.

Judges.

United States.

United States. Supreme Court--Biography.

Constitutional law--United States.

Constitutional law.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 644 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Other Title:

Court of one

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2014.

Summary:

"This is the compelling story of one of the most polarizing figures ever to serve on the nation's highest court. Antonin Scalia knew only success in the first fifty years of his life. His sterling academic and legal credentials led him to the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in 1982. Just four years later, he outmaneuvered the more senior Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. Scalia's legal brilliance and personal magnetism led everyone to predict he would unite a new conservative majority and change American law in the process. The prediction was half right: he did alter the legal landscape through his theories of textualism and originalism, but his conservatism was informed as much by his traditional Catholicism and conservative partisanship as by his reading of the constitution. By alienating swing justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy, he prevented the conservative majority from coalescing for nearly two decades. Breaking with the tradition that justices should speak only through their decisions, he tested the Court's ethical boundaries with opinionate speeches and contentious public appearances, turning the institution into a partisan target"--From publisher description.

Contents:

Scalia in winter

Pride of the Scalias

The chosen few

The Harvard Hit Parade of the 1950s

Building a resume

The President's legal adviser

Wildflowers among the weeds

It isn't easy to be right

Terminology is destiny

A court of one

Faint-hearted originalist

Losing the middle

The evil Nino

Master of the barbed opinion

War of the words

Bush v. Gore

Scalia vs. the Pope

Quack, quack

The charm offensive

The dead constitution tour

Opus SCOTUS

The rock star of One first Street

King of the originalists

The methodology of originalism

Kennedy's court

Roberts' rules of order

Reading law

Grumpy old Justice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-596) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780743296496

0743296494

OCLC:

862066445

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