Supreme Court Phalanx The Court's New Right-Wing Bloc

Name: Supreme Court Phalanx The Court's New Right-Wing Bloc
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ISBN: 9781590172933

ISBN-10: 1590172930

ISBN-13: 9781590172933

Edition: 2008

Authors: Ronald Dworkin

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George W. Bush's appointments of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court were expected to cause a revolution in the Court’s decisions. But no one could have foreseen how rapidly that revolution is proceeding. Ronald Dworkin argues that these two new justices, along with Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, have created an "unbreakable phalanx bent on remaking constitutional law." They are guided not by political ideology or conservative judicial principle, but rather by "partisan, cultural, and perhaps religious allegiance." In analyzing the decisions of their first term, Dworkin worries that they are "remaking constitutional law by overruling, most often by stealth, the central…

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List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 5/13/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.286

Ronald Dworkin was Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University.




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