6-3 and 5-4: Betrayal From Within
Twenty-five Supreme Court decisions speak in this book-not as legal arguments, but as lived consequences. A ballot that never got counted. A body claimed by the state. A right narrowed until it disappears. 6-3 and 5-4: Betrayal From Within traces how closely divided rulings have reshaped American life.
The Supreme Court was once seen as the conscience of the nation-the last safeguard of rights and equality. 6-3 and 5-4: Betrayal From Within tells a different story.
Across twenty-five landmark decisions of the twenty-first century, this book reveals how the Court has redefined freedom, democracy, and justice itself. Each case-from Bush v. Gore to Dobbs, from Citizens United to Trump v. United States-speaks in its own voice: a taxpayer dollar forced to fund a sermon, a union fee that can no longer be collected.
Through these haunting first-person narratives, the book transforms legal doctrine into lived experience. It asks readers not just to understand these rulings, but to feel them-to see what happens when law becomes ideology and neutrality becomes complicity.
With prose as sharp as its outrage, 6-3 and 5-4 exposes a Court that claims to defend the Constitution while hollowing it out from within. A reckoning for anyone who still believes justice wears a blindfold-and a warning for those who know she doesn't.
.
Customer Reviews
ThriftBooks® and the ThriftBooks® logo are registered trademarks of Thrift Books Global, LLC
