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Author
Murphy, Bruce Allen, author.
Title
Scalia : a court of one / Bruce Allen Murphy.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Imprint
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Copyright
©2014.
Description
x, 644 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Scalia in winter
Pride of the Scalias
The chosen few
The Harvard Hit Parade of the 1950s
Building a résumé
The President's legal adviser
Wildflowers among the weeds
It isn't easy to be right
Terminology is destiny
A court of one
Faint-hearted originalist
Losing the middle
The evil Nino
Master of the barbed opinion
War of the words
Bush v. Gore
Scalia vs. the Pope
Quack, quack
The charm offensive
The dead constitution tour
Opus SCOTUS
The rock star of One First Street
King of the originalists
The methodology of originalism
Kennedy's court
Roberts' rules of order
Reading law
Grumpy old Justice.
Pride of the Scalias
The chosen few
The Harvard Hit Parade of the 1950s
Building a résumé
The President's legal adviser
Wildflowers among the weeds
It isn't easy to be right
Terminology is destiny
A court of one
Faint-hearted originalist
Losing the middle
The evil Nino
Master of the barbed opinion
War of the words
Bush v. Gore
Scalia vs. the Pope
Quack, quack
The charm offensive
The dead constitution tour
Opus SCOTUS
The rock star of One First Street
King of the originalists
The methodology of originalism
Kennedy's court
Roberts' rules of order
Reading law
Grumpy old Justice.
Summary
"This is the compelling story of one of the most polarizing figures ever to serve on the nation's highest court. Antonin Scalia knew only success in the first fifty years of his life. His sterling academic and legal credentials led him to the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in 1982. Just four years later, he outmaneuvered the more senior Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. Scalia's legal brilliance and personal magnetism led everyone to predict he would unite a new conservative majority and change American law in the process. The prediction was half right: he did alter the legal landscape through his theories of textualism and originalism, but his conservatism was informed as much by his traditional Catholicism and conservative partisanship as by his reading of the constitution. By alienating swing justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy, he prevented the conservative majority from coalescing for nearly two decades. Breaking with the tradition that justices should speak only through their decisions, he tested the Court's ethical boundaries with opinionate speeches and contentious public appearances, turning the institution into a partisan target"--Publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-596) and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KF8745.S33 M87 2014
Language
English
ISBN
0743296494 (hardback)
9780743296496 (hardback)
1451611463 (ebook)
9781451611465 (ebook)
9780743296496 (hardback)
1451611463 (ebook)
9781451611465 (ebook)
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