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  • The Supreme Court

    by Lawrence A. Baum ...
    In The Supreme Court, Lawrence Baum provides a brief yet comprehensive introduction to the U.S. Supreme Court, one that is balanced and illuminating. In successive chapters, the book examines each major aspect of the Court: the selection, backgrounds, and departures of justices; the creation of the Court′s agenda; the decision-making process and the factors that shape the Court′s decisions; the ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

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    A Requiem for the Supreme Court

    by Linda Greenhouse ...
    **The gripping story of the Supreme Court’s transformation from a measured institution of law and justice into a highly politicized body dominated by a right-wing supermajority, told through the dramatic lens of its most transformative year, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning law columnist for The New York Times“A dazzling feat . . . meaty, often scintillating and sometimes scary . . . Greenhouse is a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Supermajority

    How the Supreme Court Divided America

    by Michael Waldman ...
    A “terrific, if chilling, account” (The Guardian) of how the Supreme Court’s new conservative supermajority is overturning decades of law and leading the country in a dangerous political direction.In The Supermajority, Michael Waldman explores the tumultuous 2021–2022 Supreme Court term. He draws deeply on history to examine other times the Court veered from the popular will, provoking controversy ... Read more

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  • The Right to Vote

    The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

    by Alexander Keyssar ...
    Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ideas with Consequences

    The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution

    by Amanda Hollis-Brusky ...
    Series series Studies in Postwar American Political Development
    There are few intellectual movements in modern American political history more successful than the Federalist Society. Created in 1982 to counterbalance what its founders considered a liberal legal establishment, the organization gradually evolved into the conservative legal establishment, and membership is all but required for any conservative lawyer who hopes to enter politics or the judiciary. ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Justice of Contradictions

    Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption

    by Richard L. Hasen ...
    "Superbly written, filled with brilliant insights . . . Both liberals and conservatives will see Scalia and his legacy in a new and more illuminating light." —Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in AmericaEngaging but caustic and openly ideological, Antonin Scalia was among the most influential justices ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court. In this ... Read more

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  • Judicial Politics in the United States

    by Mark C. Miller ...
    Judicial Politics in the United States examines the role of courts as policymaking institutions and their interactions with the other branches of government and other political actors in the U.S. political system. Not only does this book cover the nuts and bolts of the functions, structures and processes of our courts and legal system, it goes beyond other judicial process books by exploring how ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • We the Women

    The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment

    by Julie C. Suk ...
    Ruth Bader Ginsburg believed that the equal rights of women belonged in the Constitution. She stood on the shoulders of brilliant women who persisted across generations to change the Constitution. We the Women tells their stories, showing what’s at stake in the current battle for the Equal Rights Amendment.The year 2020 marks the centennial the Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • When Courts and Congress Collide

    The Struggle for Control of America's Judicial System

    by Charles Gardner Geyh ...
    "This is quite simply the best study of judicial independence that I have ever read; it is erudite, historically aware, and politically astute."-Malcolm M. Feeley, Claire Sanders Clements Dean's Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley"Professor Geyh has written a wise and timely book that is informed by the author's broad and deep experience working with the ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Legacies of Losing in American Politics

    by Jeffrey K. Tulis, Nicole Mellow ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    American politics is typically a story about winners. The fading away of defeated politicians and political movements is a feature of American politics that ensures political stability and a peaceful transition of power. But American history has also been built on defeated candidates, failed presidents, and social movements that at pivotal moments did not dissipate as expected but instead ... Read more

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  • Equal Means Equal

    Why the Time for an Equal Rights Amendment Is Now

    by Jessica Neuwirth ...
    When the Equal Rights Amendment was first passed by Congress in 1972, Richard Nixon was president and All in the Family's Archie Bunker was telling his feisty wife Edith to stifle it. Over the course of the next ten years, an initial wave of enthusiasm led to ratification of the ERA by thirty-five states, just three short of the thirty-eight states needed by the 1982 deadline. Many of the ... Read more

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  • The Supreme Court and Election Law

    Judging Equality from Baker v. Carr to Bush v. Gore

    by Richard Hasen ...
    "A pioneering study of the Court's increasing efforts to regulate the US political system" from the author of A Real Right to Vote (Bruce Cain, University of California, Berkeley).In the first comprehensive study of election law since the Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore, Richard L. Hasen rethinks the Court's role in regulating elections. Drawing on the case files of the Warren, Burger, and ... Read more

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