Introduction: The court-packing controversy -- The size of the Supreme Court : a history -- FDR's court-packing plan -- Republican democracy -- Pluralist democracy -- The history of the law-politics dichotomy -- The myth of the law-politics dichotomy (or, understanding the law-politics dynamic) -- The purists -- A little bit of this, a little bit of that -- An emulsion -- Understanding legal interpretation : the law-politics dynamic -- Implications of the law-politics dynamic -- For Supreme Court justices -- For politicians, commentators, and citizens -- For scholars -- The Roberts Court's conservatism -- Judicial denigration of democratic government -- Judicial protection of wealth and the economic marketplace -- Lack of judicial protection for women -- Judicial protection for whites, not people of color -- Judicial protection of christianity -- Counterexamples : how conservative is the Roberts Court? -- Conclusion : court-packing and Supreme Court legitimacy
Summary
"Challenges the argument that court-packing will politicize the Court and undermine its institutional legitimacy, arguing that the "law-politics dichotomy" is a myth because politics always has and always will influence Supreme Court decision-making"-- Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 26, 2021)
