Court Divided PA

In this authoritative reckoning with the eighteen-year record of the Rehnquist Court, one of America's finest professors of constitutional law reveals how the decisions of nine deeply divided justices have left the future of the Court-and the nation-hanging in the balance. The intellectual and personal dramas of the Court have turned upon and determined the most important cases of our time, from gay rights to big business. Freshly updated with a discussion of the likely consequences of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement and the confirmation of John Roberts as Chief Justice in the wake of Rehnquist's death, Mark Tushnet "makes the perfect tour guide" (Washington Post) through the nation's last half-century under the rule of law, and shows why our future depends on the next Court appointments. Book jacket.

Mark Tushnet is Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University Law Center