07110cam a2200481 4500 285446534 TxAuBib 20161217120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781442266377 1442266376 B01HUCBYWS Amazon 59898326-936e-438d-81f2-7783ef10ec30 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2855405 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Zirin, James D. Supremely Partisan [Bridges eBook] : How Raw Politics Tips the Scales in the United States Supreme Court. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1630kB. Format: OverDrive Adobe PDF eBook, Filesize: 3066kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1630kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. A leading litigator engagingly explores what many readers already know: the Supreme Court votes along party lines. In this highly knowledgeable and entirely accessible book, Zirin (The Mother Court: Tales of Cases that Mattered in America's Greatest Trial Court, 2014) shows that what many readers thought they knew about our nation's highest court only touched the surface. At the beginning, the author apologizes to all-knowing attorneys for his brief but comprehensive history of the court. This is not just a list of famous cases, but rather explanations of their origins and far-reaching results. Many of us knew Marbury v. Madison established judicial review, but Zirin explains how President John Adams' 'midnight appointments' at the end of his term set it off. Politically motivated decisions are not especially new; the Lochner... Kirkus, Starred Review. On the eve of a presidential election that may determine the makeup of Supreme Court justices for decades to come, prominent attorney James D. Zirin argues that the Court has become increasingly partisan, rapidly making policy choices right and left on bases that have nothing to do with law or the Constitution. Zirin explains how we arrived at the present situation and looks at the current divide through its leading partisans, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor on the left and Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas on the right. He also examines four of the Court's most controversial recent decisions – Hobby Lobby, Obamacare, gay marriage, and capital punishment – arguing that these politicized decisions threaten to undermine public confidence in the Supreme Court. "How politicized has the Supreme Court become? Is it – and has it ever been – truly an independent tribunal protecting our sacred rights to justice under the Constitution? Or is it basically a collection of predictable political partisans? How has the Court's shifting ethnic and religious composition altered its character? James Zirin offers some provocative reflections on these questions and many more, in a book marked as deeply by his patriotic passion as his historical acuity. Supremely Partisan should be required reading for every citizen concerned about the state of our democracy.". Sean Wilentz, Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor of History, Princeton University. "An important and engaging examination of how the Supreme Court has acted in a partisan fashion and failed to protect our rights. James Zirin's book powerfully shows why the composition of the Supreme Court matters for all of us, often in the most significant and intimate aspects of our lives. Everyone, whatever their degree of knowledge of the Supreme Court can benefit from reading Zirin's compelling analysis.". Erwin Chemerinsky, U.S. constitutional law and federal civil procedure scholar and current and founding dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law. "A vivid, no-holds-barred portrait of the politicization of the Supreme Court. Jim Zirin takes the robes off the justices and reveals why Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, Senators and Presidents, business and labor, evangelicals and atheists, look to the Supreme Court to further their public policies and private beliefs. Read it. It's a WOW! Book.". Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Lyndon Johnson's top assistant for domestic affairs, former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, attorney and author. "Once again, Jim Zirin has produced a vividly written and pungently argued book on the development of American law, this time through the lens of the political backgrounds of the members of the U.S. Supreme Court. A good many readers will find their opinions about a 'politicized court' reinforced by this book and challenged by the superb foreword by Kim Roosevelt.". Philip C. Bobbitt, Herbert Wechsler Professor of Federal Jurisprudence, Columbia Law School. "A particularly timely book! With the raging partisan battle over Justice Scalia's replacement as a backdrop, Jim Zirin raise the vexing question of whether we may be moving towards a more politicized judiciary in a Supreme Court deeply divided over difficult constitutional questions.". Nadine Strossen, Former President, American Civil Liberties Union. "As the future of the Supreme Court hangs in the balance, James Zirin has given us an extraordinarily timely, riveting, and historically informed work about how the Court has become a supremely political and partisan body. A must read in these times — and all times.". Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher of The Nation. "[W]ithin the next eighteen months . . . . three of the US justices will be in their eighties, giving Trump, with a compliant Senate, an opportunity to reshape a court whose legacy will inevitably outlast his own. Zirin's book explains just why the stakes are so high.". London Spectator. "Jim Zirin has written a bracing and provocative account of the ideological cross-currents in the Supreme Court at an especially pivotal point in the Court's 227-year old history.". Jack Goldsmith, Henry L. Shattuck Professor, Harvard Law School. "A brisk and spirited book.". The Sunday Times (London.) Nonfiction. Politics. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2017-02-17 23:00:02. 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