Kevin S. Jobe philosophically advances judicial skepticism to show how the US Supreme Court’s use of textualism and originalism is performative discrimination. Jobe’s brilliant analyses uncover the racial injustice in recent ‘colorblind’ rulings by the Court. Malevolent Legalities unmasks the juridical foundations of current backlash against social progress toward equality. This is a must read for scholars of politics and jurisprudence, Left and Right.

Naomi Zack, Lehman College, CUNY

The ‘Rule of Law’ is the proposition that no one and no law is above the law. This regime, or ideology, has created a system of legality to which we submit in the belief of the original proposition. However, as we are all too painfully aware, our histories are entangled with what Jobe calls ‘malevolent’ legalities. This is a most important contribution to what we can call the aporia of law: law is unlawful itself and law is what creates the order in which we live.

Eduardo Mendieta, Pennsylvania State University