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The Campaign to Impeach Justice William O. Douglas : Nixon, Vietnam, and the Conservative Attack on Judicial Independence /

"The politics of division and distraction, conservatives' claims of liberalism's dangers, the wisdom of amoral foreign policy, a partisan challenge to a Supreme Court justice, and threats to the constitutionally mandated balance between the three branches of government: however of the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kastenberg, Joshua E., 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Senator Fred Harris
  • Cold War politics and the court under siege
  • The rising men, the muckrakers of the judiciary, and beleaguered judges
  • Douglas, extrajudicial activities, and the Vietnam conflict
  • Ford's attack on Douglas begins
  • The House of Representatives responds to Ford and the Cambodian invasion
  • A long summer of discord : the Senate awaits the House.