Supremely partisan : how raw politics tips the scales in the United States Supreme Court / James D. Zirin ; foreword by Kermit Roosevelt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zirin, James D., author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Supreme Court.

United States.

Judicial review--United States.

Judicial review.

Political questions and judicial power--United States.

Political questions and judicial power.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2016.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On the eve of a presidential election that may determine the makeup of Supreme Court justices for decades to come, prominent attorney James D. Zirin argues that the Court has become increasingly partisan, rapidly making policy choices right and left on bases that have nothing to do with law or the Constitution. Zirin explains how we arrived at the present situation and looks at the current divide through its leading partisans, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor on the left and Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas on the right. He also examines four of the Court's most controversial

Contents:

Title Page; Foreword; Introduction; What the Supreme Court Is Supposed (and Not Supposed) to Do; Identity Politics and the Partisan Court; Religion and the Partisan Court; Two of the Eighty-Nine WASP Male Justices; The Catholic Seat; The Jewish Seat; And Goldberg Begat Fortas; The Supreme Court Tackles the Middle East; The Female Seat and Ruth Bader Ginsburg; The Black Seat; Antonin Scalia (1936-2016); Sonia Sotomayor; Hobby Lobby; The Obamacare Cases; Gay Marriage; Capital Punishment; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

ISBN:

979-82-16-41915-0

1-4422-6637-6

OCLC:

946255030