Publication Date: May 14, 2019.
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How one snags a Court nomination is highly fact-specific and Stevens carefully lays out how the lightening struck him.
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From Bush v. Gore, Citizens United, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, to Gonzales v. Carhart, D.C. v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago, Justice Stevens demonstrates how honored and long-standing precedent, textual nuance and legislative context are being sacrificed upon the altar of originalism.
In Appointed by President Gerald Ford and eventually retiring during President Obama's first term, Justice Stevens has been witness to, and an integral part of, landmark changes in American society during some of the most important Supreme Court decisions over the last four decades.
Justice Stevens gives us a wonderful look at himself, the court and the country in this book.
Of the first section, I found the chapters on Stevens' service on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and how he gained his appointment to the Court as the most valuable. The Making of a Justice: Reflections on My First 94 Years Review.
The Making of a Justice: Reflections on My First 94 Years
By Justice John Paul Stevens.
Get this from a library! He became a liberal by virtue of his opinions on the Bench, opinions shaped by what he believed to be just.
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Being the gentleman that he is, Justice Stevens leaves it to the reader to understand the sinister consequences which will devolve from a Court which has become "untethered" to its time-honored role. Enter the terms you wish to search for. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.
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With stories of growing up in Chicago, his work as a naval traffic analyst at Pearl Harbor during World War II, and his early days in private practice, "Stevens delivers...on a handful of timely and hugely important themes, starting with the shape of American democracy...his defense crackles with spirit.
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If you have been out of law school for awhile, or just care deeply about the direction in which our nation is headed, you should read this book.
""Former Justice John Paul Stevens spent 35 years on the Supreme Court, writing some of its most important decisions.
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