A Year at the Supreme Court

Published by Duke University Press 2004

A Year at the Supreme Court

Edited by: Neal Devins , Davison M. Douglas and Mark A. Graber

In the series Constitutional conflicts

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822385950

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About this book

Profiles a watershed year (2002-2003) in the life of the U.S. Supreme Court, with contributions by journalists and Court advocates that discuss critical rulings on gay rights, affirmative action, hate speech, federal-state relations, and criminal law.

Author / Editor information

Neal Devins is Goodrich Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law at the William and Mary School of Law. He is also Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary. His most recent books include The Democratic Constitution and Political Dynamics of Constitutional Law (4th edition), both coauthored with Louis Fisher.

Davison M. Douglas is the Arthur B. Hanson Professor of Law at the William and Mary School of Law, where he is former Director of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law. He is the author of Reading, Writing, and Race: The Desegregation of the Charlotte Schools.

Reviews

“‘The quiet of a storm center,’ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said of the Supreme Court. The storm—the drama—has never been more intense than in the 2002–03 term. Here the decisions of that term are brilliantly, provocatively described and analyzed.”—Anthony Lewis, author of Gideon’s Trumpet and Make No Law

“A close and revealing look by journalists and advocates on the operations of the Supreme Court. This book captures the powerful political pressures that constantly play against the Justices and help determine their decisions.”—Louis Fisher, author of American Constitutional Law

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
The Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, 2002–03 Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Neal Devins and Davison M. Douglas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
ONE A High Court of One: The Role of the ‘‘Swing Voter’’ in the 2002 Term Dahlia Lithwick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
TWO Anthony M. Kennedy and the Road Not Taken David G. Savage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
THREE A Revolutionary Year: Judicial Assertiveness and Gay Rights David J. Garrow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
FOUR The Next Culture War Jeffrey Rosen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
FIVE The Affirmative Action Decisions Stuart Taylor Jr. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
SIX Was Affirmative Action Saved by Its Friends? Carter G. Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
SEVEN The Court’s Faux Federalism Ramesh Ponnuru Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
EIGHT Cross Burning: Virginia v. Black Rod Smolla Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
NINE Cruel and Unusual: Lockyer v. Andrade Erwin Chemerinsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
TEN Glasnost at the Supreme Court Tony Mauro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Table of Cases Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Notes on the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 256

eBook

Published: October 13, 2004
ISBN: 9780822385950