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2) With liberty and justice for some: how the law is used to destroy equality and protect the powerful
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Greenwald offers a scathing critique of the two-tiered system of justice that has emerged in America. The law was to be the great equalizer in American life. Instead, a two-tiered system of justice ensures that the country's political and financial class is virtually immune from prosecution, licensed to act without restraint, while the politically powerless are imprisoned with greater ease and in greater numbers than in any other country in the world....
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal status of the least powerful members of American society? In the hands of eminent historian Laura F. Edwards, these textiles tell a revealing story of ordinary people and how they made use of their material goods' economic and legal value in the period between the Revolution and the Civil War"--Dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Hot Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The author presents his insights and perspective on current legal efforts to stop Donald Trump from winning a second term as President of the United States--efforts that in Dershowitz's opinion are unconstitutional and are not an equal application of the law.
Dershowitz analyses the efforts by political opponents of Donald Trump to stop him from running in 2024- at any cost. He makes it clear that unconstitutional efforts to stop Trump from retaking...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"James Hamilton has been a fly on the wall of American history through his involvement in the investigations concerning Watergate, the Kennedy assassination, "Debategate," the Keating Five, the Clinton impeachment, Vince Foster's suicide, the Valerie Plame affair, Benghazi, and the Major League Baseball steroids scandal. Arguing against Brett Kavanaugh (in Kavanaugh's only Supreme Court argument), Hamilton won the Supreme Court case establishing that...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Despite assertions about the unprecedented nature of his presidency, few of Trump's policies have been novel; many had been proposed in varied form throughout the latter years of the 20th century. Yet it was not until 9/11 that many of these policies started to take hold. In this intellectual and political history, Greenberg traces the evolving language, law, governance and policy that began to redefine the nation in the wake of 9/11 and shows how...
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