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Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land.
Just in time for the 2008 presidential election—where the future of the Court will be at stake—Toobin reveals an institution at a moment of transition, when decades of conservative disgust with the Court have finally produced a conservative majority, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, presidential power, and church-state relations.
Based on exclusive interviews with justices themselves, The Nine tells the story of the Court through personalities—from Anthony Kennedy’s overwhelming sense of self-importance to Clarence Thomas’s well-tended grievances against his critics to David Souter’s odd nineteenth-century lifestyle. There is also, for the first time, the full behind-the-scenes story of Bush v. Gore —and Sandra Day O’Connor’s fateful breach with George W. Bush, the president she helped place in office.
The Nine is the book bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin was born to write. A CNN senior legal analyst and New Yorker staff writer, no one is more superbly qualified to profile the nine justices.
作者简介:
杰弗里·图宾,1986年毕业于哈佛法学院,担任过纽约市布鲁克林区联邦助理检察官。现为《纽约客》杂志职业撰稿人,CNN资深法律评论员,是美国最出色的法律记者之一,著有一系列法律题材畅销书,包括:Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election(2002);A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President(2000);The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson(1997); Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer’s First Case—United States v. Oliver North(1992)。2007年出版的《九人:美国最高法院风云》(The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court)被《纽约时报》评为2007年度“十大好书”之一,同时荣获安东尼•卢卡斯非虚构类图书奖、美国律师协会“银法槌奖”。
原文摘录:
本院的多数意见,只会使人们对全国法官工作的评价从充满信心变为悲观失望。法治的真正支柱,在于人们对司法体制的信任。时间总有一天会愈合今天的判决给这一信任造成的伤害。但是,有一点可以肯定的。我们或许无法百分之百地确定,到底谁是今年总统大选的赢家,但最终输家却是显而易见的,那就是这个国家对法官作为法治公正的守护神的信任。 (查看原文)
isNull
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2012-08-17 09:26:21
—— 引自章节:最终输家
对最高法院的工作,很少有大法官比布雷耶更热情。布雷耶的睿智是众所周知的,但他在1994年被克林顿任命时,并没有多少处理宪法事务的经历。事实上,布雷耶更注重解决实际问题,是一个技术专家论者,他同时还是反垄断法与行政法专家,联邦《刑事量刑指南》的起草者。与别人不同的是,他不喜欢赋予宪法太多宏大含义。但在2005年,他还是做了一件几代大法官都没有尝试过的事情——用一本书来表达自己对宪法的理解。布雷耶的《积极自由》(Active Liberty)一书并不是务虚的哲学专著,而是一位务实界人士撰写的实用著作。“我们的宪法历史,”他写道,“追求的是一个切实可行的政府,切实可行的民主政府,切实保护公民个人自由的、切实可行的民主政府”。没有什么词比“切实可行”(workable)更适合用来形容布雷耶的思维方式了。 (查看原文)
问津
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2012-07-14 17:50:19
—— 引自第265页