No Litmus Test
Law Versus Politics in the Twenty-First Century
The courts and, indeed, the law itself are under assault from both right and left. Conservatives denounce what they see as liberal judicial activism in decisions involving abortion, gay rights, and the separation of church and state. They seek judges who will apply rather than make the law. Meanwhile, liberals decry the apparent hypocrisy of a Supreme Court that invokes states' rights to invalidate civil rights laws while overriding states' rights in order to put a Republican in the White House. Backed by academic critics who have been arguing against the possibility of objectivity for roughly a century, many critics on the left have essent…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7425-5029-2
- EAN: 9780742550292
- Produktnummer: 1904169
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 318 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.1 cm 645 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 645
Über den Autor
Michael C. Dorf is the Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia University School of Law. He is the editor of Constitutional Law Stories (2004) and coauthor, with Laurence H. Tribe, of On Reading the Constitution (1991). He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy (1991-1992) and Judge Stephen Reinhardt of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1990-1991).
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