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Author Tushnet, Mark, 1945- author.

Title Taking back the Constitution : activist judges and the next age of American law / Mark Tushnet.

Publication Info. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]
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 Levine Library - Circulating Collection  KF8742 .T873 2020    Available
Description x, 308 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-299) and index.
Contents Part one: Where we are now -- Calling balls and strikes -- Originalisms -- Playing politics -- "We've done enough" : the constitutional law of race -- The court and conservative movements -- Culture wars, yesterday and today -- Part two: Where a modern Republican Supreme Court might take us -- Strengthening a new constitutional order : partisan entrenchment and fulfilling campaign pledges -- The business agenda -- Deconstructing the administrative state -- Possibilities thwarted and revived -- The weaponized First Amendment -- Part three: Progressive alternatives : the short run -- Winning elections, enacting statutes -- Putting courts on the progressive agenda -- Playing constitutional hardball -- Part four: Progressive alternatives : the long run -- Popular constitutionalism versus judicial supremacy -- Amending the Constitution -- Conclusion: 2020 and after -- Appendix: Strategies of Supreme Court decision-making.
Summary "The Supreme Court has never simply evaluated laws and arguments in light of permanent and immutable constitutional meanings, and social, moral, and yes, political ideas have always played into Supreme Court justices' impressions of how they think a case should be decided. Mark Tushnet traces the ways constitutional thought has evolved from the liberalism of the New Deal and Great Society to the Reagan conservatism that has been dominant since the 1980s. Looking at the current crossroads in the constitutional order, Tushnet explores the possibilities of either a Trumpian entrenchment of the most extreme ideas of the Reagan philosophy, or a dramatic and destabilizing move to the left. Wary of either outcome, he offers a passionate and informed argument for replacing judicial supremacy with popular constitutionalism-a move that would restore the other branches of government's role in deciding constitutional questions"--Provided by the publisher.
Subject United States. Supreme Court.
Political questions and judicial power -- United States.
Judicial review -- United States.
Constitutional law -- United States.
ISBN 9780300245981 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
030024598X (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
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