Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court
- ISBN-10
- 0140283560
- ISBN-13
- 9780140283563
- Category
- Law / Legal History
- Pages
- 576
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Author
- Edward Lazarus
Description
Operating inside a network of Byzantine secrecy, the United States Supreme Court is the most powerful judicial institution in the world. Nine unelected justices, supposedly insulated from the pressure of politics, are charged with protecting our most cherished rights and shaping our fundamental laws.
In this eloquent, trailblazing account, Edward Lazarus, who served as a clerk to Justice Harry Blackmun, provides an insider's guided tour of a court at war with itself and often in neglect of its constitutional duties. He guides the reader through the Court's inner sanctum, explaining as only an eyewitness can the collisions of law, politics, and personality as the Justices wrestle with the most fiercely disputed issues of our time. Part memoir, part history, and all spellbinding narrative, Closed Chambers provides an intimate portrait -- Justice by Justice -- of the battles and compromises of the highest court in the land.
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- 2005-05-03
- 608 pages
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- 1998
- 610 pages
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