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Title: Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court by Edward Lazarus ISBN: 0-14-028356-0 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.66 (44 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: James Carville in the Supreme Court
Comment: This book provides overwhelming evidence of how unelected, Leftists Supreme Court law clerks abuse their positions to make public policy. The author clerked for the late Justice Harry Blackmun who tried his best to incorporate Leftist values into the Constitution against the will of the vast majority of the American people. Lucky for us, Justices Scalia and Thimas have neutralized this vast left wing conspiracy. Like Carville, the author holds most Americans, including those reading this review, in utter contempt.
Rating: 5
Summary: Informative and accessible
Comment: I agree with most of what the other reveiwers have written about this book. It is a very well-written and accessible account of the Supreme Court and its development in recent times. As another reviewer mentioned, Mr. Lazarus is honest about his liberal views and biases, and he is quite clear about which of his observations are accurate historical accounts and which are colored by his poilitical view. I found the book to be enjoyable and informative, and to contain some good basic explanations of how the Supreme Court works.
Rating: 5
Summary: Closed Chambers, a Spectacular secret Supreme Court look
Comment: We have this perception that our Supreme Court Justices as somehow John Houston-type, erudite professors of the law. This book smashes those conceptions and shows that though many are brilliant, their pre-conceived biases have a major role in their decisions. You rapidly learn to determine how a particular justice will rule on any case...before you read the facts of the case. What then becomes the interesting focus is the superb arguments of the always-liberal justices and the always-conservative justices to the somewhat-middle-of-the-road justices.
I was dismayed to find that some justices who were selected for politically-correct reasons or even for superb pre-Supreme Court work, suddenly became lazy louts who let their Clerks have the ultimate power. I was frightened by the fact that young clerks who haven't really TASTED life are entrusted with so much power in RULING our lives. I remember my idealistic views in my youth contrasted to my more crusty, life-experienced views now, and would hate to have had my untried youthful life to be in charge of the country.
The book showed me that it would be far superior to have a system of legal powers working as Assistants to the court.....to have well-known legal professors doing a locum tenums for a year or two, rather than some ultra-bright kids doing the work.
One justice in particular stood out as a do-nothing justice..a joke to the court. One justice stood out as a vote-liberal-no-matter the case. One justice stood out as a vote-on-the-winning-side.
It's somewhat sad, because after reading the book, I realized that I could predict almost every Supreme Court ruling before it was handed down. The liberal wing ALWAYS votes liberal, ALWAYS pretends to find a legal flaw in death penalty cases, the conservative wing ALWAYS votes conservative and seemingly doesn't care for the rights of individuals, whereas the middle-court it usually predictable in which way they will swing. Usually their is a personal agenda involved, rather than the rule of law.
The one prevailing concept, however, that over-ruled these was precedent. I was surprised how powerful precedent was and how strongly the justices tried not to change precedent.
This book is a must read for anyone in the legal profession, and a must read for anyone who cares a hoot about how their country reads.
I have mixed feelings about the Clerks who violated their oaths of secrecy to write this book....I feel the Freedom of Speech argument and the Public's Right to Know outweighs that consideration, but still, they lied.
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Title: A People's History of the Supreme Court by Peter H. Irons, Howard Zinn ISBN: 0140292012 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Brethren : Inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward, Scott Armstrong ISBN: 0671241109 Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Juv) Pub. Date: December, 1979 List Price(USD): $31.15 |
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Title: The Supreme Court : A new edition of the Chief Justice's classic history by William H. Rehnquist ISBN: 0375409432 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 06 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: A Matter of Interpretation by Antonin Scalia, Amy Gutmann ISBN: 0691004005 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 27 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: A History of the Supreme Court by Bernard Schwartz ISBN: 0195093879 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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