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English
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Acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now stands at a crucial point, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, and church-state relations. Based on exclusive interviews
...3) With liberty and justice for some: how the law is used to destroy equality and protect the powerful
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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....
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"A groundbreaking work that retells modern history through the rise and spread of written constitutions-some enlightened, many oppressive-to every corner of the globe. Filling a crucial void in our understanding of world history, Linda Colley reconfigures the rise of the modern world over three centuries through the advent of written constitutions. Her absorbing work challenges accepted narratives, focusing on rulers like Catherine the Great, who...
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