Nixon's Court
Subtitle: his challenge to judicial liberalism and its political consequences
By: Kevin J. McMahon
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780226561196
Subjects: Politics and government; Judges; Influence; United States. Supreme Court; United States; Selection and appointment; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nixon's victory: oppositional presidents and the cycles of Supreme Court politics; title: Circa 1968: law, order, and the race for the White House; title: The fight for the nomination: holding on for a second chance; title: Running to be 'the One': Nixon, divided democrats, and a chastened court; title: The politics of desegregation; title: 'Instead of listening to what we say . . . watch what we do': electoral strategies, practical politics, and Nixon's judicial policy; title: Leading by following: Nixon, the Court, and the road to school desegregation; title: The dynamics and difficulties of remaking the Court; title: The Party of Lincoln's last stand? The GOP divide and the rejection of Nixon's southern strict constructionists (or, How Senate republicans made the court more liberal); title: Fifty-three seconds that shaped the Court: Nixon's acceptable southerner and accidental ideologue (or, How liberals made the Court more conservative); title: The political and electoral consequences of Supreme Court decisions; title: Fighting busing, crime, smut, and social disorder in America: strong rhetoric, selective action; title: Judicial decisions and the ballot box: Nixon's Court and the division of the democratic coalition; title: Evaluating the conservative counterrevolution through the Nixon/Rehnquist nexus.