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The Coming of the Nixon Court - The 1972 Term and the Transformation of Constitutional Law (Hardcover)
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The Coming of the Nixon Court - The 1972 Term and the Transformation of Constitutional Law (Hardcover)
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Beginning with Brown v. Board of Education and continuing with a
series of decisions that, among other things, expanded the reach of
the Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court that Richard Nixon inherited
had presided over a progressive revolution in the law. But by 1972
Nixon had managed to replace four members of the so-called Warren
Court with justices more aligned with his own law-and-order
conservatism. Nixon's appointees-Warren Burger as Chief Justice and
Harry Blackmun, Lewis Powell, and William Rehnquist as associate
justices-created a politically diverse bench, one that included not
only committed progressives and conservatives, but also justices
with a wide variety of more moderate views. The addition of the
Nixon justices dramatically changed the trajectory of American
constitutional jurisprudence with ramifications continuing to this
day. This book is an account of the actions of the ""Nixon Court""
during the 1972 term-a term during which one of the most
politically diverse benches of the era would confront a remarkably
broad array of issues with major implications for the future of
constitutional law. By looking at the term's cases-most notably Roe
v. Wade, but also those addressing school desegregation, criminal
procedure, obscenity, the rights of the poor, gender
discrimination, and aid to parochial schools-Earl Maltz offers a
detailed picture of the unique interactions behind each decision.
His book provides the reader with a rare close-up view of the
complexity of the forces that shape the responses of a politically
diverse Court to ideologically divisive issues-responses that,
taken together, would shape the evolution of constitutional
doctrine for decades to come.
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