American justice 2017 : the Supreme Court in crisis /
Author / Creator: | Robinson, Kimberly, author. |
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Imprint: | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017] ©2017 |
Description: | xiii, 162 pages ; 23 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11339435 |
Summary: | With the death of associate justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court was plunged into crisis. Refusing to hold hearings or confirm the nominee of a Democratic president almost a year away from a presidential election, the Republican-controlled Senate held the court hostage, forcing it to do its work through nearly the entire term ending in June 2017 with just eight justices. In American Justice 2017: The Supreme Court in Crisis , Kimberly Robinson examines the way individual justices and the institution as a whole reacted to this unprecedented, politically fraught situation. |
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Physical Description: | xiii, 162 pages ; 23 cm |
ISBN: | 0812249976 9780812249972 |