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The Supreme Court Phalanx: The Court's New Right-Wing Bloc
enlarge	Author: Ronald Dworkin Publisher: New York Review Books Category: Book List Price: ~~$12.95~~ Buy New: $4.88 You Save: $8.07 (62%) Buy New/Used from $4.88 Avg. Customer Rating: (1 reviews) Sales Rank: 246560 Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published) Media: Paperback Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 96 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3 Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.2 ISBN: 1590172930 Dewey Decimal Number: 347.7326 EAN: 9781590172933 ASIN: 1590172930 Publication Date: May 13, 2008 Release Date: May 13, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Editorial Reviews: Product Description George W. Bush?s nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court in 2005 were widely expected to turn it sharply to the right. But no one foresaw the rapidity or the revolutionary zeal with which, as Ronald Dworkin writes, the Court would begin ?overruling, most often by stealth, the central constitutional doctrines that generations of past justices, conservative as well as liberal, had constructed.? Dworkin examines the key decisions of the Court?s 2006-?2007 term and argues that these two new justices, along with Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, have created an ?unbreakable phalanx bent on remaking constitutional law.? They are guided not by political ideology or conservative judicial principle but rather by ?partisan, cultural, and perhaps religious allegiance,? and disdain tradition, precedent, even careful legal reasoning. In his analyses of the prior records of Roberts and Alito, Dworkin finds ample evidence that both have long held strong conservative convictions. But during their confirmation hearings, they gave little hint of their judicial philosophy, hiding behind vague promises to make decisions ?according to the rule of law.? If senators fail to press nominees for candid answers to the controversial questions of principle underlying the Constitution, Dworkin contends, then the confirmation process is irrelevant. As a result, the Court may be dominated for a generation by justices whose views are far from those of most Americans. Its past decisions on issues such as abortion, affirmative action, and executive power, Dworkin fears, are ?vulnerable to reversal in the next several years as the fiercely conservative justices set out to rewrite American constitutional law without much caring about the logic of the arguments they use to do so. Bush?s appointment of Roberts and Alito may prove to be among the worst of the many disasters of his miserable administration.?

Customer Reviews: Dworkin on the Robert/Alito Supreme Court May 20, 2008 3 out of 3 found this review helpful In addition to serving as one of the leading thinkers in the area of legal philosophy, Ronald Dworkin has had an effective career as a political commentator in such publications as the "New York Review of Books" and "The New Republic." This short paperback, running some 70 pages (but lacking an index) reprints four of his essays from the NYRB that appeared between October 05 and August 07. One of his major themes, which has been echoed by many others, is the ineffectual nature of the Supreme Court confirmation process. This is particularly significant for Dworkin since he believes Gore v. Bush "foreshadowed" the end of Supreme Court moderation. Dworkin wants the hearings to rigorously probe the "constitutional philosophy" of the nominee, which he sees as the only safeguard against the typical evasive answers that usually are offered to Senatorial questions. Otherwise we end up with the "pointless recital of an established script" such as occurred in the Alito hearings. Dworkin finds some danger signs in Alito's DOJ memos and his decisions while on the Third Circuit. He also argues that Alito misled the Judiciary Committee on his dedication to precedent. Both Alito and Roberts Dworkin concludes engage in "silent" overruling of past precedents. The third and fourth chapters deal with abortion and "stealth" overruling in affirmative action, campaign finance, first amendment rights in schools and standing to challenge the expenditure of public monies for religious purposes. Whatever you can say about Dworkin's adrenalin here and his vigorous advocacy of a philosophy at odds with the current Court majority, his articles proved to be remarkably prescient, as many of his predictions about Robert, Alito and their Court unfortunately have come to pass.

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