Pack the court! : a defense of Supreme Court expansion

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Full Title:: Pack the court! : a defense of Supreme Court expansion / Stephen M. Feldman

Genre:: Electronic books
Subjects:: United States.Supreme Court--History
Political questions and judicial power--United States
Law--Political aspects--United States
Separation of powers--United States
Judges--Selection and appointment--United States
Law
United States--Politics and government

Table of Contents:: Introduction: 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.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 1 online resource
Local Note:: Available to current Emory University students, faculty and staff.