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Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the leading constitutional lawyer who has sued every president since LBJ, a masterful explication of the "pillars of our democracy"
On November 9, 2016, many Americans feared that our democracy was on the verge of collapse. But is it? In an erudite and brilliant evaluation of the current state of our government, noted constitutional scholar Burt Neuborne administers a stress test to democracy and concludes that our unprecedented sets of constitutional...
3) With liberty and justice for some: how the law is used to destroy equality and protect the powerful
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Argues that the American legal system is set up in such a way that the politically powerful escape justice despite wrongdoing, while the disadvantaged fill the prisons.
Author
Publisher
Hot Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The author presents his insights and perspective on current legal efforts to stop Donald Trump from winning a second term as President of the United States--efforts that in Dershowitz's opinion are unconstitutional and are not an equal application of the law."--
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
This fascinating, behind-the-scenes story of Franklin Roosevelt's attempt to pack the Supreme Court recounts the major New Deal initiatives of FDR's first term and the rulings that overturned them, offering a reminder of the perennial temptation toward an imperial presidency that the founders had always feared.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged our American democracy through redistricting,"--NoveList.
Journalist David Dalcy's explosive look at the new frontier of political dirty tricks--a coordinated assault on representative democracy through gerrymandering. Here, Daley documents an unprecedented effort by Republican legislators and political operatives to hack American democracy through...
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