Oath The Obama White House and the Supreme Court

Name: Oath The Obama White House and the Supreme Court
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ISBN: 9780385527200

ISBN-10: 0385527209

ISBN-13: 9780385527200

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jeffrey Toobin

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From the prizewinning author of The Nine, a gripping insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration.From the moment John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, blundered through the Oath of Office at Barack Obama's inauguration, the relationship between the Supreme Court and the White House has been confrontational. Both men are young, brilliant, charismatic, charming, determined to change the course of the nation—and completely at odds on almost every major constitutional issue. One is radical; one essentially conservative. The surprise is that Obama is the conservative—a believer in incremental change,…

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List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/18/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Jeffrey Toobin has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993 and is also the legal analyst for ABC News. He received his A.B. from Harvard College and is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School. Toobin lives in New York City with his wife and two children.



Prologue: The Oaths






The Politician's Path



"On Behalf of the Strong in Opposition to the Weak"



The Era of Good Feelings



The Legacy of Appendix E



The Ballad of Lilly Ledbetter



The War Against Precedent






The Hunter



Lawyers, Guns, and Money



The Unrequited Bipartisanship of Barack Obama



Wise Latina






Money Talks



Samuel Alito's Question



The Rookie



The Ninety-Page Swan Song of John Paul Stevens



"With All Due Deference to Separation of Powers"






The Retired Justices Dissent



Softball Politics



The Tea Party and the Justice's Wife



The Thomas Court



"Democracy Is Not a Game"






"You Should Do It"



Broccoli



The "Effective" Argument


Epilogue: The Roberts Court


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Photo Credits


Index