The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right
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The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Warren E. Burger is often treated as a transitional court between the liberal Warren Court and the later Rehnquist and Roberts Courts, a period when little of note happened. Michael J. Graetz and Linda Greenhouse dispute that picture, arguing that the court was conservative and shaped today's constitutional landscape. Richard Nixon had promised in his 1968 campaign to change the Court, and with four appointments, including Burger as chief justice, he did. The authors show the Court moving well to the right on criminal law, race and corporate power, and they trace its major decisions to their roots and present-day effects. Their research draws on the justices' personal papers and other archives.
Author Evan Thomas endorsed it, crediting the two legal scholars with demolishing the myth that Nixon failed to move the Court much to the right.
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Evan Thomas (Author)
When the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against President Nixon in the famous 1974 Watergate Tapes Case that doomed his presidency, Nixon cursed the justices he had appointed. The myth grew that Nixon had failed to significantly move the Court to right. In their compelling, elegantly written analysis, two brilliant legal scholars (and clear-eyed explainers) convincingly demolish that myth.
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