All Judges Are Political--Except When They Are Not: Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law

by Keith Bybee

Book Overview

We live in an age where one person's judicial "activist" legislating from the bench is another's impartial arbiter fairly interpreting the law. After the Supreme Court ended the 2000 Presidential election with its decision in Bush v. Gore, many critics claimed that the justices had simply voted their political preferences. But Justice Clarence Thomas, among many others, disagreed and insisted that the Court had acted according to legal principle,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804753121
• ISBN13: 9780804753128
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Stanford Law Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"