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The Campaign to Impeach Justice William O. Douglas - Nixon, Vietnam, and the Conservative Attack on Judicial Independence (Hardcover)
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The Campaign to Impeach Justice William O. Douglas - Nixon, Vietnam, and the Conservative Attack on Judicial Independence (Hardcover)
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The politics of division and distraction, conservatives' claims of
liberalism's dangers, the wisdom of amoral foreign policy, a
partisan challenge to a Supreme Court justice, and threats to the
constitutionally mandated balance between the three branches of
government: however of the moment these matters might seem, they
are clearly presaged in events chronicled by Joshua E. Kastenberg
in this book, the first in-depth account of a campaign to impeach
Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas nearly fifty years ago. On
April 15, 1970, at President Richard Nixon's behest, Republican
House Minority Leader Gerald Ford brazenly called for the
impeachment of Douglas, the nation's leading liberal judge-and the
House Judiciary Committee responded with a six-month investigation,
while the Senate awaited a potential trial that never occurred.
Ford's actions against Douglas mirrored the anger that millions of
Americans, then as now, harbored toward changing social, economic,
and moral norms, and a federal government seemingly unconcerned
with the lives of everyday working white Americans. Those actions
also reflected, as this book reveals, what came to be known as the
Republicans' "southern strategy," a cynical attempt to exploit the
hostility of white southern voters toward the civil rights
movement. Kastenberg describes the political actors, ambitions,
alliances, and maneuvers behind the move to impeach
Douglas-including the Nixon administration's vain hope of
deflecting attention from a surprisingly unpopular invasion of
Cambodia-and follows the ill-advised effort to its ignominious
conclusion, with consequences that resonate to this day. Marking a
turning point in American politics, The Campaign to Impeach Justice
William O. Douglas is a sobering, cautionary tale, a critical
chapter in the history of constitutional malfeasance, and a
reminder of the importance of judicial independence in a
politically polarized age.
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