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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
[2019]
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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.