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  • Closing the Courthouse Door

    How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable

    "[A] clear, cogent, passionate and persuasive" account of how constitutional rights have been restricted by "disturbing decisions of the Supreme Court" (Glenn C. Altschuler, Huffington Post ).The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well: access to courts that can rule on ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We the People

    A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century

    The author and dean of constitutional law offers framework for understanding the US Constitution and the current threats facing democracy.Worried about what a super conservative majority on the Supreme Court means for the future of civil liberties? From gun control to reproductive health, a conservative court will reshape the lives of all Americans for decades to come. The time to develop and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Presumed Guilty

    How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights

    An unprecedented work of civil rights and legal history, Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court has enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses through its decisions over the last half-century.Police are nine times more likely to kill African-American men than they are other Americans—in fact, nearly one in every thousand will die at the hands, or under the knee, of an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Case Against the Supreme Court

    A preeminent constitutional scholar offers a hard-hitting analysis of the Supreme Court over the last two hundred yearsMost Americans share the perception that the Supreme Court is objective, but Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the country’s leading constitutional lawyers, shows that this is nonsense and always has been. The Court is made up of fallible individuals who base decisions on their own biases ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • A Court Divided

    October Term 2023

    The Supreme Court’s October 2023 Term was filled with blockbuster decisions that will have a dramatic effect on the law and on people’s lives. The Court created broad immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts taken by a president, dramatically limited the power of federal administrative agencies, clarified the meaning of the Second Amendment, and empowered cities to use the criminal law ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Worse Than Nothing

    The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism

    Why originalism is a flawed, incoherent, and dangerously ideological method of constitutional interpretationOriginalism, the view that the meaning of a constitutional provision is fixed when it is adopted, was once the fringe theory of a few extremely conservative legal scholars but is now a well-accepted mode of constitutional interpretation. Three of the Supreme Court’s nine justices explicitly ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • No Democracy Lasts Forever

    How the Constitution Threatens the United States

    A groundbreaking work from one of America’s leading legal scholars, No Democracy Lasts Forever audaciously asserts that the only way a polarized America can avoid secession is to draft a new Constitution.The Constitution has become a threat to American democracy. Due to its inherent flaws—its treatment of race, dependence on a tainted Electoral College, a glaringly unrepresentative Senate, and the ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • A Momentous Year in the Supreme Court

    October Term 2021

    Table of Contents:PrefaceIntroduction to October Term 2021AbortionAdministrative LawCivil Rights LitigationCriminal Law and ProcedureElection LawFederal Court JurisdictionFirst Amendment: Freedom of SpeechFirst Amendment: ReligionImmigration LawIndian LawSecond AmendmentState SecretsConclusion: Looking AheadI... ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Case Against the Supreme Court

    Narrated by Philip Hernandez ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 11 min

    Both historically and in the present, the Supreme Court has largely been a failureIn this devastating book, Erwin Chemerinsky—“one of the shining lights of legal academia” (The New York Times)—shows how, case by case, for over two centuries, the hallowed Court has been far more likely to uphold government abuses of power than to stop them. Drawing on a wealth of rulings, some famous, others little ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • The Supreme Judiciary

    October Term 2022

    The 2016 presidential election profoundly reshaped the Supreme Court. President Donald Trump's selection of three justices - Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett - created a solid six-justice conservative majority. The impact was seen a year ago in October Term 2021, Justice Barrett's first full term. The Court overruled Roe v. Wade, dramatically increased the protection for gun ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • The Supreme Court in Transition

    October Term 2020

    Table of ContentsIntroduction to October Term 2020Antitrust and college sportsBankruptcy lawCivil rights litigationCriminal law and procedureFederal court jurisdictionFirst Amendment: Free Exercise of ReligionFirst Amendment: Freedom of SpeechImmigration lawIndian LawIntellectual propertyPersonal jurisdictionSeparation of powersThe... ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    No Democracy Lasts Forever

    How the Constitution Threatens the United States

    Narrated by Daniel Thomas May ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 23 min

    No Democracy Lasts Forever argues that the Constitution has become a threat to American democracy and must be dramatically changed or replaced if secession is to be avoided.Deeply troubled by the Constitution's inherent flaws, Erwin Chemerinsky, the renowned dean of Berkeley law school, came to the sobering conclusion that our nearly 250-year-old founding document is responsible for the crisis now ... Read more

    $19.99 USD