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Repugnant Laws

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Repugnant Laws

By Keith E. Whittington

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About the book

When the Supreme Court strikes down favored legislation, politicians cry judicial activism. When the law is one politicians oppose, the court is heroically righting a wrong. In our polarized moment of partisan fervor, the Supreme Court's routine work of judicial review is increasingly viewed through a political lens, decried by one side or the other as judicial overreach, or "legislating from the bench." But is this really the case? Keith E. Whittington asks in Repugnant Laws, a first-of-its-kin...Show more

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9780700627790

Publisher

University Press of Kansas

Published year

2019

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1

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Repugnant Laws

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Hardcover

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