Closed Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court - Hardcover

Lazarus, Edward

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ISBN 10: 0812924029 ISBN 13: 9780812924022

Verlag: Times Books, 1998

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For the first time, a former law clerk to the Supreme Court reveals how the Court decides its cases, offering a devastating portrait of justice perverted by politics and unduly influenced by the power of anonymous clerks. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

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Court of the United States is the most powerful court in the world.  It is also the branch of our government most shrouded in mystery, misunderstanding, and myth..  Isolated in a marble temple, supposedly insulated from the pressures of politics, nine unelected Justices are charged with protecting our most cherished rights and shaping our fundamental laws.  They are assisted by roughly thirty-six law clerks each year, the best and brightest  of the nation's young lawyers, who routinely  go on to fill the highest ranks of our government, courts, law schools, and law firms.

Never before has one of these clerks stepped forward to reveal how the Court really works--and why it often fails the country and the cause of justice. In this groundbreaking book, award-winning historian Edward Lazarus, a former clerk to Justice Harry A. Blackmun, guides the reader through the Court's inner sanctum, explaining as only an eyewitness can the collisions of

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• Verlag: Times Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0812924029
• ISBN 13: 9780812924022
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 576