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The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution Hardcover - 2013
by Marcia Coyle
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The Roberts Court, seven years old, sits at the center of a constitutional maelstrom. Through four landmark decisions, Marcia Coyle, one of the most prestigious experts on the Supreme Court, reveals the fault lines in the conservative-dominated Court led by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.
Seven minutes after President Obama put his signature to a landmark national health care insurance program, a lawyer in the office of Florida GOP attorney general Bill McCollum hit a computer key, sparking a legal challenge to the new law that would eventually reach the nationâÈçs highest court. Health care is only the most visible and recent front in a battle over the meaning and scope of the U.S. Constitution. The battleground is the United States Supreme Court, and one of the most skilled, insightful, and trenchant of its observers takes us close up to watch it in action.
Marcia CoyleâÈçs brilliant inside account of the High Court captures four landmark decisionsâÈ'concerning health care, money in elections, guns at home, and race in schools. Coyle examines how those cases beganâÈ'the personalities and conflicts that catapulted them onto the national sceneâÈ'and how they ultimately exposed the great divides among the justices, such as the originalists versus the pragmatists on guns and the Second Amendment, and corporate speech versus human speech in the controversial Citizens United campaign case. Most dramatically, her analysis shows how dedicated conservative lawyers and groups are strategizing to find cases and crafting them to bring up the judicial road to the Supreme Court with an eye on a receptive conservative majority.
The Roberts Court offers a ringside seat at the struggle to lay down the law of the land.
Seven minutes after President Obama put his signature to a landmark national health care insurance program, a lawyer in the office of Florida GOP attorney general Bill McCollum hit a computer key, sparking a legal challenge to the new law that would eventually reach the nationâÈçs highest court. Health care is only the most visible and recent front in a battle over the meaning and scope of the U.S. Constitution. The battleground is the United States Supreme Court, and one of the most skilled, insightful, and trenchant of its observers takes us close up to watch it in action.
Marcia CoyleâÈçs brilliant inside account of the High Court captures four landmark decisionsâÈ'concerning health care, money in elections, guns at home, and race in schools. Coyle examines how those cases beganâÈ'the personalities and conflicts that catapulted them onto the national sceneâÈ'and how they ultimately exposed the great divides among the justices, such as the originalists versus the pragmatists on guns and the Second Amendment, and corporate speech versus human speech in the controversial Citizens United campaign case. Most dramatically, her analysis shows how dedicated conservative lawyers and groups are strategizing to find cases and crafting them to bring up the judicial road to the Supreme Court with an eye on a receptive conservative majority.
The Roberts Court offers a ringside seat at the struggle to lay down the law of the land.
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- Title The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution
- Author Marcia Coyle
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 407
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, NY
- Date 2013-05-07
- ISBN 9781451627510 / 1451627513
- Weight 1.39 lbs (0.63 kg)
- Dimensions 9.5 x 6.65 x 1.31 in (24.13 x 16.89 x 3.33 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Roberts, John G., Political questions and judicial power -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012051637
- Dewey Decimal Code 347.732
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âÈêMarcia Coyle has written a brilliant expose of how the Roberts Court has acted on healthcare, gun control, campaign finance, school racism, and more. This is jurisprudence journalism-history at its finest. And it's a joy to read. Highly recommended!âÈë
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