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Content: " An incisive analysis of how the Supreme Court's new conservative supermajority is overturning decades of law and leading the country in a dangerous political direction. In The Supermajority , Michael Waldman explores the tumultuous 2021173 8211 2022 Supreme Court term. He draws deeply on history to examine other times the Court veered from the popular will, provoking controversy and backlash. And he analyzes the most important new rulings and their implications for the law and for American society. Waldman asks: What can we do when the Supreme Court challenges the country? Over three days in June 2022, the conservative supermajority overturned the constitutional right to abortion, possibly opening the door to reconsider other major privacy rights, as Justice Clarence Thomas urged. The Court sharply limited the authority of the EPA, reducing the prospects for combatting climate change. It radically loosened curbs on guns amid an epidemic of mass shootings. It fully embraced legal theories such as originalism that will affect thousands of cases throughout the country. These major decisions8212 and the next wave to come8212 will have enormous ramifications for every American. It was the most turbulent term in memory8212 with the leak of the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade , the first Black woman justice sworn in, and the justices turning on each other in public, Waldman previews the 20228211 2023 term and how the brewing fights over the Supreme Court and its role that already have begun to reshape politics.The Supermajority is a revelatory examination of the Supreme Court at a time when its dysfunction8212 and the demand for reform8212 are at the center of public debate."

Content: Biographisches: "Michael Waldman is president and CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, a nonpartisan law and policy institute that works to revitalize the nation's systems of democracy and justice. He was director of speechwriting for President Bill Clinton from 1995 to 1999 and is the author of The Second Amendment: A Biography and The Fight to Vote . Waldman was a member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court. A graduate of Columbia College and NYU School of Law, he comments widely in the media on law and policy." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: January 1, 2023 A professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, Hershfield illuminates an idea that's recently been in the news: to improve your life now, you need to work harder to imagine and connect meaningfully to Your Future Self (45,000-copy first printing). With The Con Queen of Hollywood , award-winning investigative journalist Johnson expands on his Hollywood Reporter story about the con artist who managed to rip off millions of dollars from people in the entertainment industry (100,000-copy first printing). With The Elissas , Leach presents a cautionary tale centering on best friend Elissa, who was thrown out of private school and sent to a $10,000-a-month boarding school for troubled teenagers, where she bonded with classmates named (eerily) Alissa and Alyssa,Elissa died of encephalitis shortly after graduating, and her two friends subsequently succumbed to drug use (60,000-copy first printing). As a girl in the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, Mahfouz was denied an education but still entertained Defiant Dreams , teaching herself mathematics at age 16 and sneaking into Pakistan to take the SATs,she eventually escaped to the United States and is now a quantum computing researcher at Tufts University. Patterson's Chaos Kings focuses on the Universa fund to illuminate the activities of high-risk traders who go after so-called black swans--unforeseeable upheavals that can yield billions in profits. Having explained in the nearly million-copy best-selling The Color of Law how U.S. federal, state, and local governments have not just facilitated but actively created segregation, Richard Rothstein teams with housing policy expert (and daughter) Leah Rothstein in Just Action to explain how segregation can be dismantled, focusing on what local organizations can do about securing renters' rights, diversifying exclusively white areas, and more. President of the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law, Waldman shows how the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative Supermajority has driven the Court's rulings far from what most people in the country want and what the implications will be. Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: April 17, 2023 Waldman ( The Fight to Vote ), president and CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, delivers a persuasive analysis of the Supreme Court’s 2021–2022 term and how “decades of organized politics” brought it to a “point of judicial extremism and overreach.” During the cultural revolutions of the 1950s and ’60s, chief justice Earl Warren led the court’s efforts to expand and protect civil rights, leading to such landmark decisions as Brown v. Board of Education and Miranda v. Arizona , but also exacerbating tensions between the right and the left as the latter became “enamored of litigation as a driver of social change and came to hold the Supreme Court itself in near-religious reverence.” Eventually, Waldman writes, “intense divisions within Congress spread to judicial nominations and came to be the central fact in how American courts were comprised.” Among more recent rulings, Waldman highlights 2010’s Citizens United , which “remade American politics” to give more influence to the wealthy, and Shelby County v. Holder , which significantly weakened the Voting Rights Act. He also delves into the links between the Federalist Society and the three conservative justices appointed by Donald Trump, and takes note of the historical precedents behind the 2022 Dobbs leak, which contributed to a “tense, accusatory, and suspicious” atmosphere within the court as it released other consequential and controversial rulings on gun rights and environmental regulations. Brisk yet detailed, this is a valuable overview of how America’s highest court became such a lightning rod." Rezension(4): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: May 15, 2023 Alarming expos� of the Supreme Court's hard right supermajority. Along with legislatures stripping minorities of civil and voting rights and gerrymandering safe districts, the Supreme Court, writes NYU School of Law scholar Waldman, is among the foremost threats to American democracy. While in office, Donald Trump installed three Supreme Court justices who have transformed the moderate Roberts court into an extreme right-wing institution that, in just three days in June 2022, overturned Roe v. Wade, forbade federal agencies from addressing climate change, and radically loosened curbs on guns, amid an epidemic of mass shootings. These actions, Waldman fears, are just the beginning of a struggle over the meaning of the Constitution--a struggle fought, by his reckoning, three times before, most recently in rulings concerning civil rights after Brown v. Board of Education. The current court is focused on originalism, which involves trying to discern exactly what the Founders were thinking. However, Waldman urges, the Founders assumed that the Constitution would be frequently amended to reflect social change. One great reform came in the 19th century to extend the power of the Bill of Rights to state-level as well as federal actions. Today, with the sullenly taciturn Clarence Thomas and his election-denying spouse at the center of the court, stripping rights, Waldman charges, is the order of the day. In an institution with almost no ethical controls, Thomas managed to run afoul of the few existing rules that govern conduct. Waldman counsels a program to sidestep the Supreme Court not by packing it, as some have urged, but instead by strengthening lower courts (Justice John Roberts himself having called for 79 new federal judges), limit court tenure to 18 years instead of a lifetime appointment, and concentrate on building a progressive legislative branch. A damning account of a Supreme Court gone wildly activist in shredding the Constitution. COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(5): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: May 15, 2023 The Supreme Court has always been contentious and its rulings divisive. Once, the Supreme Court was virtually toothless,how did it become a coequal branch of the government, whose decisions severely impact the daily lives of all Americans? Waldman traces the historical roots of the court, from its establishment with the adoption of the Constitution and its early weakness to its eventual major impact on modern America. With meticulous attention to detail, Waldman leads up to the modern era, explaining how the court came to be dominated by a radically conservative supermajority of six to three. He explains how a variety of conservative decisions have dramatically reduced the scope of civil rights, specifically West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (which notoriously overturned abortion rights). He then looks to the future, speculating on how possible decisions by this conservative court will further divide the country and damage American democracy. Waldman's detail is difficult to slog through at times, but this is a cautionary tale that shouldn't be ignored. COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "

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