Advice & Dissent: The Struggle to Shape the Federal Judiciary
For better or worse, federal judges in the United States today are asked to resolve some of the nations most important and contentious public policy issues. Although some hold onto the notion that federal judges are simply neutral arbiters of complex legal questions, the justices who serve on the Supreme Court and the judges who sit on the lower federal bench are in fact crafters of public law. In recent years, for example, the Supreme Court has bolstered the rights of immigrants, endorsed the constitutionality of school vouchers, struck down Washington D.C.s blanket ban on handgun ownership,
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Weitere Autoren: Maltzman, Forrest
- ISBN: 978-0-8157-0340-2
- EAN: 9780815703402
- Produktnummer: 22238651
- Verlag: Brookings Inst
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 198 S.
- Masse: H22.4 cm x B15.0 cm x D1.8 cm 318 g
- Gewicht: 318
Über den Autor
Sarah A. Binder is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a professor of political science at George Washington University. Her most recent book is Stalemate: Causes and Consequences of Legislative Gridlock (Brookings).Forrest Maltzman is a professor of political science at George Washington University. He is the coauthor most recently of Crafting Law on the Supreme Court: The Collegial Game (Cambridge).
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