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Pack the court! : a defense of Supreme Court expansion
Title
Pack the court! : a defense of Supreme Court expansion / Stephen M. Feldman.
ISBN
9781439921586
143992158X
9781439921593
1439921598
9781439921609
Publication
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2021.
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
x, 264 pages ; 23 cm.
Summary
"Challenges the argument that court-packing will politicize the Court and undermine its institutional legitimacy, arguing that the "law-politics dichotomy" is a myth because politics always has and always will influence Supreme Court decision-making"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Feldman, Stephen Matthew, 1955- Pack the court! Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2021
Format
Books
Language
English
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The court-packing controversy
The size of the Supreme Court : a history
FDR's court-packing plan
Republican democracy
Pluralist democracy
The history of the law-politics dichotomy
The myth of the law-politics dichotomy (or, understanding the law-politics dynamic)
The purists
A little bit of this, a little bit of that
An emulsion
Understanding legal interpretation : the law-politics dynamic
Implications of the law-politics dynamic for Supreme Court justices
For politicians, commentators, and citizens
For scholars
The Roberts Court's conservatism
Judicial denigration of democratic government
Judicial protection of wealth and the economic marketplace
Lack of judicial protection for women
Judicial protection for whites, not people of color
Judicial protection of christianity
Counterexamples : how conservative is the Roberts Court?
Conclusion : court-packing and Supreme Court legitimacy.
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Genre/Form
History.
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