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The Nine Have Spoken
The Nation vs. the Supreme Court, 1870 to Today
Edited by Richard Kreitner
The Nation now has a book series. Click here to purchase our first title for just $10, a collection on the Supreme Court.

 

It would be difficult to overstate the extent to which the American republic’s current set of staggering problems and seemingly intractable crises can and should be blamed on a single institution: the United States Supreme Court.

 

The Nine Have Spoken: The Nation vs. the Supreme Court, 1870 to Today argues our reactionary Supreme Court is no aberration, but the endpoint of a long history of demands for a democratic, accountable judiciary that have gone unheeded.
“After too long an era of acquiescence in baleful judicial power, this collection proves that skepticism of the institution today is in a worthy tradition desperately needing both rediscovery and renewal.”
—Samuel Moyn
From I.F Stone and other early Nation writers’ demands for Court reform to justice correspondent Elie Mystal’s impassioned and astute coverage in recent years, this collection of Nation writings about the Court puts the choices we face today in proper historical perspective. It shows that the justices’ recent spate of reactionary rulings is not a departure from history but a return to the norm, and that proposing ideas for overhauling the Court should not be considered particularly radical or beyond the pale. Rather, questioning the Court’s legitimacy, demanding a more democratic, accountable federal judiciary, is a tradition nearly as old as the Court itself.

 

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