Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme CourtPenguin Books, 1999 - 576 páginas Operating inside a network of Byzantine secrecy, the United States Supreme Court is the most powerful judicial institution in the world. Nine unelected justices, supposedly insulated from the pressure of politics, are charged with protecting our most cherished rights and shaping our fundamental laws. In this eloquent, trailblazing account, Edward Lazarus, who served as a clerk to Justice Harry Blackmun, provides an insider's guided tour of a court at war with itself and often in neglect of its constitutional duties. He guides the reader through the Court's inner sanctum, explaining as only an eyewitness can the collisions of law, politics, and personality as the Justices wrestle with the most fiercely disputed issues of our time. Part memoir, part history, and all spellbinding narrative, Closed Chambers provides an intimate portrait -- Justice by Justice -- of the battles and compromises of the highest court in the land. |
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... reason ; they concluded . Flimsy rationales were substituted where logic belonged . Precedents were not applied or accounted for ; they were willfully misread or shunted aside with the back of a judicial hand . I cannot remember a set ...
... reason ; they concluded . Flimsy rationales were substituted where logic belonged . Precedents were not applied or accounted for ; they were willfully misread or shunted aside with the back of a judicial hand . I cannot remember a set ...
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... reasons are readily concocted ; too hard because an honest , nonracially motivated prosecutor may well not have had a specific , case- related reason for each peremptory strike . Justice White resolved this tension by basically ...
... reasons are readily concocted ; too hard because an honest , nonracially motivated prosecutor may well not have had a specific , case- related reason for each peremptory strike . Justice White resolved this tension by basically ...
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... reason , they tried through various back channels to promote his nomination . * In the liberals ' cal- culus , Kennedy was the best they could hope for from the Reagan White House : someone not especially ideological , a person who ...
... reason , they tried through various back channels to promote his nomination . * In the liberals ' cal- culus , Kennedy was the best they could hope for from the Reagan White House : someone not especially ideological , a person who ...
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The Highest Court in the Land | 3 |
A Clerks Eye View | 17 |
The Grand Canyon | 47 |
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Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court Edward Lazarus Vista previa limitada - 2005 |
Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court Edward Lazarus Vista de fragmentos - 2005 |
Closed Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside ... Edward Lazarus Vista de fragmentos - 1998 |
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