The supermajority : how the Supreme Court divided America /
How the Supreme Court divided America Super majority
Michael Waldman.
- First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition. Revised and updated
- New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2024
- 401 pages ; 21 cm.
Introduction 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 flight ahead Victory lap Race and democracy Conclusion : We the people
The last few terms of the Supreme Court have been the most turbulent in memory. The Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade; the decision was leaked by someone still unknown; and the justices turned on each other in public. The supermajority fully embraced an "originalist" legal theory that will affect thousands of cases throughout the country and opened the door to reconsideration of other major privacy rights. The Court demonstrated its enormous power to affect our lives, which has no parallel in any other democracy. But as Michael Waldman makes clear, the American public can still respond when the Supreme Court veers away from the popular will. The Supermajority is a brilliant, incisive examination of the Supreme Court at a time when its dysfunction.
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