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Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court
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Author:
Linda Greenhouse
Publisher:
Random House
Date:
November 9, 2021
By the end of the 2020-2021 term, the right-wing supermajority will complete its first term on the U.S. Supreme Court bench, cementing Donald Trump's legacy on American jurisprudence. This is the story of that yearâfrom the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the rise of Amy Coney Barrett, from the pandemic to the election, from the Trump campaign's legal challenges to the storming of the Capitol across the street.
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... meaty, often scintillating and sometimes scary.
No one can recount judicial decisions as accessibly and intelligently as Greenhouse. She does an excellent job of describing the court’s jurisprudence...interspersing short biographical observations of the justices and filling in useful background.
Though the treatment of Barrett, who’s described as the conservative judicial movement’s 'chosen one,' is somewhat melodramatic, Greenhouse incisively dissects the crucial struggle between doctrinaire conservatives Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, and Chief Justice John Roberts, whose preferred strategy is to gradually change Court jurisprudence through subtle rulings on low-profile cases. Distinguished by Greenhouse’s vivid profiles of the justices and lucid unraveling of their knotty legal theories, this is a revelatory study of the Supreme Court in flux..
For Supreme Court watchers, provocative; for civil libertarians, alarming..
