The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution

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The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution

The Roberts Court, seven years old, sits at the center of a constitutional maelstrom. Through four landmark decisions, Marcia Coyle, one of the most prestigious experts on the Supreme Court, reveals the fault lines in the conservative-dominated Court led by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.

Seven minutes after President Obama put his signature to a landmark national health care insurance program, a lawyer in the office of Florida GOP attorney general Bill McCollum hit a computer key, sparking a legal challenge to the new law that would eventually reach the nationâ€™s highest court. Health care is only the most visible and recent front in a battle over the meaning and scope of the U.S. Constitution. The battleground is the United States Supreme Court, and one of the most skilled, insightful, and trenchant of its observers takes us close up to watch it in action.

Marcia Coyleâ€™s brilliant inside account of the High Court captures four landmark decisionsâ€”concerning health care, money in elections, guns at home, and race in schools. Coyle examines how those cases beganâ€”the personalities and conflicts that catapulted them onto the national sceneâ€”and how they ultimately exposed the great divides among the justices, such as the originalists versus the pragmatists on guns and the Second Amendment, and corporate speech versus human speech in the controversial Citizens United campaign case. Most dramatically, her analysis shows how dedicated conservative lawyers and groups are strategizing to find cases and crafting them to bring up the judicial road to the Supreme Court with an eye on a receptive conservative majority.

The Roberts Court offers a ringside seat at the struggle to lay down the law of the land.

Country	USA
Author	Marcia Coyle
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9781451627534
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
NumberOfPages	418
PublicationDate	2013-05-07
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
ReleaseDate	2013-05-07
Studio	Simon & Schuster

The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution

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