Supremely partisan : how raw politics tips the scales in the United States Supreme Court /
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- What the Supreme Court Is Supposed (and Not Supposed) to Do
- Identity Politics and the Partisan Court
- Religion and the Partisan Court
- Abortion and the Religious Test for Office
- Two of the Eighty-Nine WASP Male Justices : Marshall and Holmes
- John Marshall : Elaborating the Rule of Law
- Oliver Wendell Holmes : Elaborating the Rules for Free Speech
- Campaign Finance and Deregulation : Speech Unknown to Marshall and Holmes
- The Catholic Seat
- The Jewish Seat : Tradition, Tradition!
- And Goldberg Begat Fortas : End of the Jewish Seat
- The Supreme Court Tackles the Middle East : Is Jerusalem Part of Israel?
- The Female Seat and Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- The Black Seat : Finding The "Best Qualified"
- Thomas and Natural Law
- Thomas and the Voting Rights Act
- Thomas and Affirmative Action
- Antonin Scalia (1936-2016) : "More Catholic Than the Pope"
- Sonia Sotomayor : The Wise Latina Woman and Identity Politics
- Hobby Lobby : Religious Freedom v. Reproductive Rights
- The Obamacare Cases : The Chief Rides to the Rescue
- Gay Marriage : "The Times They Are A-Changin'"
- Capital Punishment : Death Is Different.