Supreme court

About: Supreme court is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 41858 publications have been published within this topic receiving 306787 citations. The topic is also known as: court of last resort & highest court of appeal.

Hitler's Justice: The Courts of the Third Reich

Abstract: Part 1 Prologue: "Time to Raise an Outcry" - German judges oppose the forces of reactions the enforcement of conformity the judges of the Weimar republic Part 2 The German legal system from 1933 to 1945: the Reichstag Fire Trial jurists "Coordinate" themselves the legal system during the state of emergency treason and treachery - political opposition and the courts purges at the bar nazi jurisprudence civil servants become the Fuhrer's political troops creation of the concentration camps "Protecting the Race" the courts and eugenics the euthanasia programme "defenders of the law" - the Supreme court as a Court of Appeals arbitrary decisions in everyday life the people's court summary courts of the "Inner Front" - jurisdiction of the special courts "Correcting" decisions - the judicial system and the police the legal officers' corps - military courts in the Second world War resistance from the bench Part 3 Aftermath: collapse and reconstruction restoration in the legal system coming to terms with the past the opposition goes on trial again law schools punishing nazi criminals the deserving and the undeserving - reparations for the criminals and their victims jurists on trial injustice confirmed a latter-day "Condemnation" of nazi justice an attempt at an explanation

Time Binding and Theory Building in Personal Attribute Models of Supreme Court Voting Behavior, 1916-88

Abstract: We discuss the circumstances under which analysts may expect statistical models to be time and content bound and suggest that conclusions that personal attributes models are powerful only for the postwar U.S. Supreme Court justices are premature. We present a personal attributes theory of liberalism in the U.S. Supreme Court for the past seven decades that includes political, social cleavage, family origins, and career socialization variables. We apply it to the behavior of the 46 justices serving from 1916 through 1988 (i.e., through Anthony Kennedy). Our theory-based models provide appealing and statistically robust explanations of the justices' behavior across the 72 years.

The Limits of Judicial Independence

Abstract: This book investigates the causes and consequences of congressional attacks on the US Supreme Court, arguing that the extent of public support for judicial independence constitutes the practical limit of judicial independence. First, the book presents a historical overview of Court-curbing proposals in Congress. Then, building on interviews with Supreme Court justices, members of Congress, and judicial and legislative staffers, the book theorizes that congressional attacks are driven by public discontent with the Court. From this theoretical model, predictions are derived about the decision to engage in Court-curbing and judicial responsiveness to Court-curbing activity in Congress. The Limits of Judicial Independence draws on illustrative archival evidence, systematic analysis of an original dataset of Court-curbing proposals introduced in Congress from 1877 onward and judicial decisions.

The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court

Abstract: The Brethren is the first detailed behind-the-scenes account of the Supreme Court in action. Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secrecy to give us an unprecedented view of the Chief and Associate Justices--maneuvering, arguing, politicking, compromising, and making decisions that affect every major area of American life.

The Collapse of American Criminal Justice

Abstract: The rule of law has vanished in America's criminal justice system. Prosecutors now decide whom to punish and how severely. Almost no one accused of a crime will ever face a jury. Inconsistent policing, rampant plea bargaining, overcrowded courtrooms, and ever more draconian sentencing have produced a gigantic prison population, with black citizens the primary defendants and victims of crime. In this passionately argued book, the leading criminal law scholar of his generation looks to history for the roots of these problems--and for their solutions. The Collapse of American Criminal Justice takes us deep into the dramatic history of American crime--bar fights in nineteenth-century Chicago, New Orleans bordellos, Prohibition, and decades of murderous lynching. Digging into these crimes and the strategies that attempted to control them, Stuntz reveals the costs of abandoning local democratic control. The system has become more centralized, with state legislators and federal judges given increasing power. The liberal Warren Supreme Court's emphasis on procedures, not equity, joined hands with conservative insistence on severe punishment to create a system that is both harsh and ineffective. What would get us out of this Kafkaesque world? More trials with local juries; laws that accurately define what prosecutors seek to punish; and an equal protection guarantee like the one that died in the 1870s, to make prosecution and punishment less discriminatory. Above all, Stuntz eloquently argues, Americans need to remember again that criminal punishment is a necessary but terrible tool, to use effectively, and sparingly.