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    <publisher>Simon &amp; Schuster Paperbacks</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2024</dateIssued>
    <edition>First Simon &amp; Schuster trade paperback edition. Revised and updated</edition>
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  <abstract>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.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>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</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Michael Waldman. </note>
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    <topic>Cuestiones políticas y poder judicial</topic>
    <geographic>Estados Unidos</geographic>
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    <topic>Derecho</topic>
    <topic>Aspectos políticos</topic>
    <geographic>Estados Unidos</geographic>
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  <subject>
    <geographic>Estados Unidos</geographic>
    <topic>Política y gobierno</topic>
    <temporal>2021-</temporal>
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  <classification authority="lcc">KF 8742 W164s 2024</classification>
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