Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America

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Regnery Publishing, 2006 M08 1 - 256 páginas
Conservative talk radio host, lawyer, and frequent National Review contributor Mark R. Levin comes out firing against the United States Supreme Court in Men in Black, accusing the institution of corrupting the ideals of America's founding fathers. The court, in Levin's estimation, pursues an ideology-based activist agenda that oversteps its authority within the government. Levin examines several decisions in the court's history to illustrate his point, beginning with the landmark Marbury v. Madison case, wherein the court granted itself the power to declare acts of the other branches of government unconstitutional. He devotes later chapters to other key cases culminating in modern issues such as same-sex marriage and the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. Like effective attorneys do, Levin packs in copious research material and delivers his points with tremendous vigor, excoriating the justices for instances where he feels strict constit utional constructivism gave way to biased interpretation. But Levin's definition of "activism" seems inconsistent. In the case of McCain-Feingold, the court declined to rule on a bill already passed by congress and signed by the president, but Levin, who thinks the bill violates the First Amendment, still accuses them of activism even when they were actually passive. To his talk-radio listeners, Levin's hard-charging style and dire warnings of the court's direction will strike a resonant tone of alarm, though the hyperbole may be a bit off-putting to the uninitiated. As an attack on the vagaries of decisions rendered by the Supreme Court and on some current justices, Men in Black scores points and will likely lead sympathetic juries to conviction. -
 

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CHAPTER
11
CHAPTER THREE
35
CHAPTER FOUR
55
CHAPTER FIVE
71
CHAPTER
89
CHAPTER EIGHT
115
CHAPTER NINE
131
CHAPTER ELEVEN
159
CHAPTER TWELVE
175
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
195
AFTERWORD BY EDWIN MEESE III
209
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
237
INDEX
277
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Mark Reed Levin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 21, 1957. At the age of 19, he received a bachelor's degree in political science from Temple University. He is an attorney, author, conservative commentator, and the host of American syndicated radio show The Mark Levin Show. He worked as an advisor to President Ronald Reagan's cabinet and was a chief of staff for Attorney General Edwin Meese. He is president of the Landmark Legal Foundation. He is the author of several books including Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America, Rescuing Sprite, Liberty and Tyranny, Ameritopia, and The Liberty Amendments. He received the Ronald Reagan Award from the American Conservative Union in 2001.Levin's New York Times bestsellers include Plunder and Deceit, and Rediscovering Americanism : And the Tyranny of Progressivism.

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