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The Nonsense Factory - The Making and Breaking of the American Legal System (Paperback)
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Our trial courts conduct hardly any trials, our correctional
systems do not correct, and the rise of mandated arbitration has
ushered in a shadowy system of privatised "justice." Meanwhile, our
legislators can't even follow their own rules for making rules,
while the rule of law mutates into a perpetual state of emergency.
The legal system is becoming an incomprehensible farce. How did
this happen? In The Nonsense Factory, Bruce Cannon Gibney shows
that over the past seventy years, the legal system has dangerously
confused quantity with quality and might with legitimacy. As the
law bloats into chaos, it staggers on only by excusing itself from
the very commands it insists that we obey, leaving Americans at the
mercy of arbitrary power. By examining the system as a whole,
Gibney shows that the tragedies often portrayed as isolated
mistakes or the work of bad actors-police misconduct, prosecutorial
overreach, and the outrages of imperial presidencies-are really the
inevitable consequences of law's descent into lawlessness. The
first book to deliver a lucid, comprehensive overview of the entire
legal system, from the grandeur of Constitutional theory to the
squalid workings of Congress, The Nonsense Factory provides a
deeply researched and witty examination of America's state of legal
absurdity, concluding with sensible options for reform.
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