TY  - BOOK
AU  - Avery,Michael
AU  - Chemerinsky,Erwin
AU  - Cohn,Marjorie
AU  - Maclin,Tracey
AU  - Paterson,Eva
AU  - Raskin,Jamin
AU  - Rudovsky,David
AU  - Serrano,Susan K.
AU  - Smith,Abbe
TI  - We Dissent: Talking Back to the Rehnquist Court, Eight Cases That Subverted Civil Liberties and Civil Rights 
SN  - 9780814707784
AV  - KF4749.A2 W4 2009 
U1  - 342.73085 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - United States
KW  - Cases
KW  - LAW / Court Rules
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Court
KW  - Courts
KW  - Rehnquist
KW  - Supreme
KW  - adequately
KW  - cases
KW  - civil
KW  - eight
KW  - failure
KW  - heard
KW  - liberties
KW  - protect
KW  - reexamination
KW  - rights
KW  - suggesting
KW  - under
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. Alden v. Maine --; 2. Arkansas Educational Television Commission v. Forbes --; 3. Cuyahoga Falls v. Buckeye --; 4. United States v. Whren --; 5. County of Sacramento v. Lewis --; 6. Chavez v. Martinez --; 7. Saucier v. Katz --; 8. Strickland v. Washington --; Note to the Reader Regarding Legal Citations --; About the Contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The lawyers and legal commentators who contribute to We Dissent unanimously agree that during Chief Justice William Rehnquist’s nineteen-year tenure, the Supreme Court failed to adequately protect civil liberties and civil rights. This is evident in majority opinions written for numerous cases heard by the Rehnquist Court, and eight of those cases are re-examined here, with contributors offering dissents to the Court’s decisions. The Supreme Court opinions criticized in We Dissent suggest that the Rehnquist Court placed the interests of government above the people, and as the dissents in this book demonstrate, the Court strayed far from our constitutional ideals when it abandoned its commitment to the protection of the individual rights of Americans.Each chapter focuses on a different case-ranging from torture to search and seizure, and from racial profiling to the freedom of political expression-with contributors summarizing the case and the decision, and then offering their own dissent to the majority opinion. For some cases featured in the book, the Court’s majority decisions were unanimous, so readers can see here for the first time what a dissent might have looked like. In other cases, contributors offer alternative dissents to the minority opinion, thereby widening the scope of opposition to key civil liberties decision made by the Rehnquist Court.Taken together, the dissents in this unique book address the pressing issue of Constitutional protection of individual freedom, and present a vision of constitutional law in the United States that differs considerably from the recent jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court.Contributors: Michael Avery, Erwin Chemerinsky,Marjorie Cohn, Tracey Maclin, Eva Paterson, Jamin Raskin, David Rudovsky, Susan Kiyomi Serrano, and Abbe Smith
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814707784.001.0001
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