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"At 11:34 PM on April 9, 2021, the Supreme Court issued an emergency ruling. California governor Gavin Newsom's bid to enact enhanced COVID restrictions was overturned in a sweeping redefinition of existing law. The shadowy circumstances of this ruling--an unsigned decision made in just a few pages, without a full briefing, and in the middle of the night--are not typical of the Supreme Court. But, as legal scholar and expert Stephen Vladeck shows,...
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The Enigma of Clarence Thomas is a groundbreaking revisionist take on the Supreme Court justice everyone knows about but no one knows.
"One of the marvels of Robin's razor-sharp book is how carefully he marshals his evidence.... It isn't every day that reading about ideas can be both so gratifying and unsettling." – The New York Times
Most people can tell you two things about Clarence
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Why have conservatives decried 'activist judges'? And why have liberals -- and America's powerful legal establishment -- emphasized qualifications and experience over ideology? This transformative text tackles these questions with a new framework for thinking about the nation's courts, 'the judicial tug of war', which not only explains current political clashes over America's courts, but also powerfully predicts the composition of courts moving forward.--...
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