Supremely partisan : how raw politics tips the scales in the United States Supreme Court /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zirin, James D. (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.