Nixon's court : his challenge to judicial liberalism and its political consequences /
Most analysts have deemed Richard Nixon's challenge to the judicial liberalism of the Warren Supreme Court a failure--"a counterrevolution that wasn't." Nixon's Court offers an alternative assessment. Kevin J. McMahon reveals a Nixon whose public rhetoric was more conservati...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Nixon's victory: oppositional presidents and the cycles of Supreme Court politics
- Circa 1968: law, order, and the race for the White House
- The fight for the nomination: holding on for a second chance
- Running to be 'the One': Nixon, divided democrats, and a chastened court
- The politics of desegregation
- 'Instead of listening to what we say
- watch what we do': electoral strategies, practical politics, and Nixon's judicial policy
- Leading by following: Nixon, the Court, and the road to school desegregation
- The dynamics and difficulties of remaking the Court
- The Party of Lincoln's last stand? The GOP divide and the rejection of Nixon's southern strict constructionists (or, How Senate republicans made the court more liberal)
- Fifty-three seconds that shaped the Court: Nixon's acceptable southerner and accidental ideologue (or, How liberals made the Court more conservative)
- The political and electoral consequences of Supreme Court decisions
- Fighting busing, crime, smut, and social disorder in America: strong rhetoric, selective action
- Judicial decisions and the ballot box: Nixon's Court and the division of the democratic coalition
- Evaluating the conservative counterrevolution through the Nixon/Rehnquist nexus.