The justice of contradictions
Subtitle: Antonin Scalia and the politics of disruption
By: Richard L. Hasen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780300228649
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: United States; Judges; United States. Supreme Court; Biography
Description: "Engaging but caustic and openly ideological, Antonin Scalia was among the most influential justices ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court. In this fascinating new book, legal scholar Richard L. Hasen assesses Scalia's complex legacy as a conservative legal thinker and disruptive public intellectual. The left saw Scalia as an unscrupulous foe who amplified his judicial role with scathing dissents and outrageous public comments. The right viewed him as a rare principled justice committed to neutral tools of constitutional and statutory interpretation. Hasen provides a more nuanced perspective, demonstrating how Scalia was crucial to reshaping jurisprudence on issues from abortion to gun rights to separation of powers. A jumble of contradictions, Scalia promised neutral tools to legitimize the Supreme Court, but his jurisprudence and confrontational style moved the Court to the right, alienated potential allies, and helped to delegitimize the institution he was trying to save." -- Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The disruptor; title: Word games; title: From faint-hearted to full-throated; title: Mr. Justice Scalia, the fish; title: Kulturkampf; title: Home of the brave; title: Rescued from the grave; title: The justice of contradictions.