Pack the court! : a defense of Supreme Court expansion / Stephen M. Feldman.

Author/creator Feldman, Stephen M., 1955- author.
Format Book
PublicationPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2021.
Copyright Date©2021
Descriptionx, 264 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction : The court-packing controversy -- The size of the Supreme Court : a history -- FDR's court-packing plan -- Republican democracy -- Pluralist democracy -- The history of the law-politics dichotomy -- The myth of the law-politics dichotomy (or, understanding the law-politics dynamic) -- The purists -- A little bit of this, a little bit of that -- An emulsion -- Understanding legal interpretation : the law-politics dynamic -- Implications of the law-politics dynamic -- for Supreme Court justices -- For politicians, commentators, and citizens -- For scholars -- The Roberts Court's conservatism -- Judicial denigration of democratic government -- Judicial protection of wealth and the economic marketplace -- Lack of judicial protection for women -- Judicial protection for whites, not people of color -- Judicial protection of Christianity -- Counterexamples : how conservative is the Roberts Court? -- Conclusion : Court-packing and Supreme Court legitimacy.
Abstract "Challenges the argument that court-packing will politicize the Court and undermine its institutional legitimacy, arguing that the "law-politics dichotomy" is a myth because politics always has and always will influence Supreme Court decision-making"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 187-254) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Feldman, Stephen Matthew, 1955- Pack the court! Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2021 9781439921609
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2021058733
ISBN9781439921586 hardcover
ISBN143992158X hardcover
ISBN9781439921593 paperback
ISBN1439921598 paperback
ISBNelectronic book
Standard identifier# 40030730410

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Joyner General Stacks KF8742 .F45 2021 ✔ Available Place Hold