Pack the court! : a defense of Supreme Court expansion /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Feldman, Stephen M., 1955- (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2021.
Subjects:	United States. > Supreme Court > History. Law > Political aspects > United States. Separation of powers > United States. Judges > Selection and appointment > United States. United States > Politics and government. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The court-packing controversy
The size of the Supreme Court : a history
FDR's court-packing plan
Republican democracy
Pluralist democracy
The history of the law-politics dichotomy
The myth of the law-politics dichotomy (or, understanding the law-politics dynamic)
The purists
A little bit of this, a little bit of that
An emulsion
Understanding legal interpretation : the law-politics dynamic
Implications of the law-politics dynamic
For Supreme Court justices
For politicians, commentators, and citizens
For scholars
The Roberts Court's conservatism
Judicial denigration of democratic government
Judicial protection of wealth and the economic marketplace
Lack of judicial protection for women
Judicial protection for whites, not people of color
Judicial protection of christianity
Counterexamples : how conservative is the Roberts Court?
Conclusion : court-packing and Supreme Court legitimacy.