The Decline and Fall of the Supreme Court

Living Out the Nightmares of the Federalists

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The Decline and Fall of the Supreme Court

Living Out the Nightmares of the Federalists

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The Decline and Fall of the Supreme Court examines the contemporary work of the U.S. Supreme Court and the advice and consent role of the Senate with regard to nominees to the Court. After presenting historical background on the intentions of the federalists and 20th-century jurisprudence, the work describes the baleful effects of the recent theory known as legal realism. The author examines the most dramatic of those effects—the polarized, polarizing, and partisan confirmation hearings with which the United States has become familiar—beginning with Abe Fortas and culminating with Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. This study will be of interest to scholars and laypeople in American history, political science, and law.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Triumph of Realism
What the Founders Wanted
What the New Deal Required
The Making and the Meaning of the Warren Court
Warren Court, Final Years
The Making of the Burger Court
The Unraveling of an Administration
The Meaning of the Burger Court
The Making of the Rehnquist Court
The Robert Bork Revue
Staring into the Abyss…
…and Stepping Over the Edge
The Meaning of the Rehnquist Court
Epilogue: The Clinton Presidency and the Electoral Arithmetic
Select Bibliography
Index

Product details

Published Mar 30 1995
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 224
ISBN 9780275948269
Imprint Praeger
Dimensions 235 x 156 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Christophe Faille

CHRISTOPHER C. FAILLE is a graduate of Marist Coll…

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