No Litmus Test: Law versus Politics in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN-13:
9780742550292
ISBN-10:
074255029X
Author:
Michael C. Dorf
Publication date:
2006
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format:
Hardcover
320 pages
Category:
Torts
,
Business Law
,
Civil Rights
,
Constitutional Law
,
Jurisprudence
,
Legal Theory & Systems
,
Courts
,
Rules & Procedures
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ISBN-13:
9780742550292
ISBN-10:
074255029X
Author:
Michael C. Dorf
Publication date:
2006
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format:
Hardcover
320 pages
Category:
Torts
,
Business Law
,
Civil Rights
,
Constitutional Law
,
Jurisprudence
,
Legal Theory & Systems
,
Courts
,
Rules & Procedures
Summary
No Litmus Test: Law versus Politics in the Twenty-First Century (ISBN-13: 9780742550292 and ISBN-10: 074255029X), written by authors
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The courts and, indeed, the law itself are under assault from both right and left. Conservatives denounce what they see as liberal judicial activism in decisions involving abortion, gay rights, and the separation of church and state. They seek judges who will "apply" rather than "make" the law.Meanwhile, liberals decry the apparent hypocrisy of a Supreme Court that invokes states' rights to invalidate civil rights laws while overriding states' rights in order to put a Republican in the White House. Backed by academic critics who have been arguing against the possibility of objectivity for roughly a century, many critics on the left have essentially given up: Law, they contend, is simply politics in disguise.By analyzing the most pressing controversies of our day, Columbia University Law Professor Michael Dorf defends the possibility of principled legal decision making against the attacks of both the right and the left. From Bush v. Gore to the war in Iraq, No Litmus Test demonstrates that even when the law provides no clear-cut right answers, it offers tools for distinguishing good arguments from bad ones.
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