Supreme Court Yearbook 1995-1996 Paperback Edition


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Written in non-legal language, The Supreme Court Yearbook contains easy to access summaries of all cases handed down in the term to give readers essential coverage of the Court's decisions, activities, and impact on American life.This new edition of The Supreme Court Yearbook provides comprehensive information on the 1999-2000 term in a highly readable style that brings students and interested citizens a quick understanding of the cases, events, trends, procedures, and people that shaped the Supreme Court's most recent term.Readers will find capsule summaries of every opinion written during the recent term; plus an in-depth and engaging analysis that highlights the legal, social and political implications of the term's most significant cases; discussions of the justices' voting patterns; and previews of significant issues of the upcoming term.Excerpts from the term's major decisions, a glossary of legal terms, brief biographies of the justices, and an explanation of how the Court works provide further information on the people and procedures involved in the nation's highest court.













Spectra


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English as a Global Language


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Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.




Supreme Court Yearbook 1996-1997 Paperback Edition


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This annual yearbook summarizes every opinion written during the last completed October-June term, and also provides an overview of the important trends and developments and a preview of the significant cases of the upcoming term.In-depth essays on the most significant cases highlight their legal, social, and political implications. An appendix conveniently provides excerpts from the major decisions, brief biographies of the justices, and a glossary of legal terms, as well as a description of how the Court conducts its business.




Justice on Trial


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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER! Justice Anthony Kennedy slipped out of the Supreme Court building on June 27, 2018, and traveled incognito to the White House to inform President Donald Trump that he was retiring, setting in motion a political process that his successor, Brett Kavanaugh, would denounce three months later as a “national disgrace” and a “circus.” Justice on Trial, the definitive insider’s account of Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court, is based on extraordinary access to more than one hundred key figures—including the president, justices, and senators—in that ferocious political drama. The Trump presidency opened with the appointment of Neil Gorsuch to succeed the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. But the following year, when Trump drew from the same list of candidates for his nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, the justice being replaced was the swing vote on abortion, and all hell broke loose. The judicial confirmation process, on the point of breakdown for thirty years, now proved utterly dysfunctional. Unverified accusations of sexual assault became weapons in a ruthless campaign of personal destruction, culminating in the melodramatic hearings in which Kavanaugh’s impassioned defense resuscitated a nomination that seemed beyond saving. The Supreme Court has become the arbiter of our nation’s most vexing and divisive disputes. With the stakes of each vacancy incalculably high, the incentive to destroy a nominee is nearly irresistible. The next time a nomination promises to change the balance of the Court, Hemingway and Severino warn, the confirmation fight will be even uglier than Kavanaugh’s. A good person might accept that nomination in the naïve belief that what happened to Kavanaugh won’t happen to him because he is a good person. But it can happen, it does happen, and it just happened. The question is whether America will let it happen again.