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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Página 98
... seemed likely , a prospective Eighth Amendment challenge to the death penalty would turn on the Court's sense of society's " evolving standards of decency , " Stewart seemed to be hinting strongly at the result such decency required ...
... seemed likely , a prospective Eighth Amendment challenge to the death penalty would turn on the Court's sense of society's " evolving standards of decency , " Stewart seemed to be hinting strongly at the result such decency required ...
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... seemed to moderate the recriminations swirling around him . His very presence seemed to lower the volume of debate . It was , after all , hard to raise one's voice to the wraithlike , bespectacled Powell , and he never seemed to raise ...
... seemed to moderate the recriminations swirling around him . His very presence seemed to lower the volume of debate . It was , after all , hard to raise one's voice to the wraithlike , bespectacled Powell , and he never seemed to raise ...
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... seemed to subscribe to the dubious doctrine that the Constitution contained a right to privacy but apparently even contem- plated that this right might be broad enough to cover homosexual con- duct . ( By comparison , when faced with a ...
... seemed to subscribe to the dubious doctrine that the Constitution contained a right to privacy but apparently even contem- plated that this right might be broad enough to cover homosexual con- duct . ( By comparison , when faced with a ...
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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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