The Supermajority : : how the Supreme Court Divided America

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Call Number: 347.73 Wa, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Law / Waldman, Michael
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Part One: Court fights. American aristocracy ; "No rights" ; "Nine old men" ; The Warren court ; The long backlash ; The Trump court ; Part Two: Six who ruled. Marching backward ; The shadow docket ; Arguments ; KBJ meets Q ; Insurrectionists ; The leak ; Part Three: Three days in June. Bruen (June 23, 2022) ; Dobbs (June 24, 2022) ; West Virginia v. EPA (June 30, 2022) ; Part Four: The fight ahead. Race and democracy ; Conclusion: We the people.
"An incisive analysis of how the Supreme Court's new conservative supermajority is overturning decades of law and leading the country in a dangerous political direction"-- Provided by publisher

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Well worth the read submitted by apf1950 on October 6, 2023, 9:46am Waldman is director of the Brennan Center at NYU, a left-leaning research organization. Waldman provides a good history of major Supreme Court cases and their backlash. He also lays out the conservative strategies to dominate the federal courts.

He devotes special attention to the background of recent justices. He does an especially good job of the charade of originalism and textualism as foundations for judicial opinions, especially the dishonest and poor use of history. His conclusion is that with the 2022 cases he explores in depth, "the United States Supreme Court showed itself to be one of those threats to democracy" (p. 270).