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With liberty and justice for some : how the law is used to destroy equality and protect the powerful /

Argues that the American legal system is set up in such a way that the politically powerful escape justice despite wrongdoing, while the disadvantaged fill the prisons.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greenwald, Glenn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., [2011]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
Law > Political aspects > United States.
Privileges and immunities > United States.
Law and ethics.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The origin of elite immunity
  • Immunity in the private sector
  • Too big to jail
  • Immunity by presidential decree
  • American justice's second tier
  • Epilogue.