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John Marshall Harlan

Great Dissenter of the Warren Court

By: Tinsley E. Yarbrough

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John Marshall Harlan

Great Dissenter of the Warren Court

By: Tinsley E. Yarbrough

Admired by conservatives and deeply respected by his liberal brethren, Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan was a man, as William Brennan lamented, whose "massive scholarship" has never been fully recognized. Now, in the first biography of this important but neglected jurist, Tinsley Yarbrough provides a detailed account of Harlan's life, from his privileged childhood to his retirement and death. Yarbrough examines the forces and events which shaped the Justice's jurisprudence--his early life and often complex family relationships, his education, his work as a prosecutor during the Prohibition, and years as one of the nation's preeminent corporate lawyers. The book focuses, however, on Harlan's years on the high bench. Coming at a time when the Supreme Court has begun to adopt many of Harlan's principles, this account provides an essential perspective on the Court, civil liberties, and a pivotal figure in the history of both.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195060903

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9780195060904

A Passion for Justice

J. Waties Waring and Civil Rights

By: Tinsley E. Yarbrough

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A Passion for Justice

J. Waties Waring and Civil Rights

By: Tinsley E. Yarbrough

Yarbrough examines the life and career of Judge J. Waties Waring, a southern segregationist who in 1945 turned civil rights advocate, and assesses the controversy and motivating forces behind this seminal figure in the civil rights movement.

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J. Waties Waring and Civil Rig

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0195147154

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9780195147155

The Rehnquist Court and the Constitution

By: Tinsley E. Yarbrough

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The Rehnquist Court and the Constitution

By: Tinsley E. Yarbrough

Thoughtful, wide-ranging, and intelligently written, this volume is an insightful look at the Rehnquist Court and its impact on law and American life.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195146034

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David Hackett Souter

Traditional Republican on the Rehnquist Court

By: Tinsley E. Yarbrough

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David Hackett Souter

Traditional Republican on the Rehnquist Court

By: Tinsley E. Yarbrough

Sifting through Souter's opinions and other relevant records and interviews, esteemed Supreme Court biographer Yarbrough reveals the real David Souter, crafting a fascinating account of one of the heretofore most elusive Justices in the history of the Court.

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Oxford University Press

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0195159330

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9780195159332

A Passion for Justice

J. Waties Waring and Civil Rights

By: Tinsley E. Yarbrough

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A Passion for Justice

J. Waties Waring and Civil Rights

By: Tinsley E. Yarbrough

In 1945, when southern segregationist Judge J. Waties Waring turned civil rights activist, he became the first jurist in modern times to declare segregated schooling "inequality per se." Throughout his career he also ordered the equalization of teachers' salaries, outlawed South Carolina's white primary, and urged the complete breakdown of state-enforced bars to racial intermingling. Yarbrough examines the life and career of this fascinating but neglected jurist, assessing the controversy he generated and his place in the early history of the modern civil rights movement.

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0195147154

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Harry A. Blackmun

The Outsider Justice

By: Tinsley Yarbrough

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Harry A. Blackmun

The Outsider Justice

By: Tinsley Yarbrough

This book offers a revelatory portrait of one of the most intriguing jurists to sit on the American Supreme Court, and ultimately also provides an illuminating window into the inner workings of the modern Supreme Court.

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0195141237

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The Rehnquist Court and the Constitution

By: Tinsley E. Yarbrough

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Thoughtful, wide-ranging, and intelligently written, this volume is an insightful look at the Rehnquist Court and its impact on law and American life.

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Harry A. Blackmun

The Outsider Justice

By: Tinsley Yarbrough

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Harry A. Blackmun

The Outsider Justice

By: Tinsley Yarbrough

When appointed to the Supreme Court in 1970 by President Nixon, Harry A. Blackmun was seen as a quiet, safe choice to complement the increasingly conservative Court of his boyhood friend, Warren Burger. No one anticipated his seminal opinion championing abortion rights in Roe v. Wade, the most controversial ruling of his generation, which became the battle cry of both supporters and critics of judicial power and made Blackmun a liberal icon. Harry A. Blackmun: The Outsider Justice is Tinsley E. Yarbrough's penetrating account of one of the most outspoken and complicated figures on the Supreme Court. As a justice, Blackmun stood at the pinnacle of the American judiciary. Yet when he took his seat on the Court, Justice Blackmun felt "almost desperate," overwhelmed with feelings of self-doubt and inadequacy over the immense responsibilities before him. Blackmun had overcome humble roots to achieve a Harvard education, success as a Minneapolis lawyer and resident counsel to the prestigious Mayo Clinic, as well as a distinguished record on the Eighth Circuit federal appeals court. But growing up in a financially unstable home with a frequently unemployed father and an emotionally fragile mother left a permanent mark on the future justice. All his life, Harry Blackmun considered himself one of society's outsiders, someone who did not "belong." Remarkably, though, that very self-image instilled in the justice, throughout his career, a deep empathy for society's most vulnerable outsiders--women faced with unwanted pregnancies, homosexuals subjected to archaic laws, and ultimately, death-row inmates. To those who saw his career as the constitutional odyssey of a conservative jurist gradually transformed into a champion of the underdog, Blackmun had a ready answer: he had not changed; the Court and the issues before them changed. The justice's identification with the marginalized members of society arguably provides the overarching key to that consistency. Thoroughly researched, engagingly written, Harry A. Blackmun: The Outsider Justice offers an in-depth, revelatory portrait of one of the most intriguing jurists ever to sit on the Supreme Court. Relying on in-depth archival material, in addition to numerous interviews with Blackmun's former clerks, Yarbrough here presents the definitive biography of the great justice, ultimately providing an illuminating window into the inner-workings of the modern Supreme Court.

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0198032382

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David Hackett Souter

Traditional Republican on the Rehnquist Court

By: Tinsley E. Yarbrough

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David Hackett Souter

Traditional Republican on the Rehnquist Court

By: Tinsley E. Yarbrough

When the first President Bush chose David Hackett Souter for the Supreme Court in 1990, the slender New Englander with the shy demeanor and ambiguous past was quickly dubbed a "stealth candidate". Since his appointment, Souter has embraced a flexible, evolving, and highly pragmatic judicial style that embraces a high regard for precedent--even liberal decisions of the Warren and Burger Courts with which he may have personally disagreed. Ultimately, Yarbrough contends, Souter has become the principal Rehnquist Court opponent of the originalist, text-bound jurisprudence that many of the more conservative Justices profess to champion. Sifting through Souter's opinions, papers of the Justice's contemporaries and other relevant records and interviews, esteemed Supreme Court biographer Tinsley Yarbrough here gives us the real David Souter, crafting a fascinating account of one of the heretofore most elusive Justices in the history of the Court.

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0190289392

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The Burger Court

Justices, Rulings, and Legacy

By: Tinsley E. Yarbrough

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The Burger Court

Justices, Rulings, and Legacy

By: Tinsley E. Yarbrough

Describes the rulings which were made during the years Warren Earl Burger served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1969 to 1986.

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1576071790

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Judge Frank Johnson and Human Rights in Alabama

By: Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Department of Political Science Tinsley E Yarbrough,Tinsley E. Yarbrough

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Judge Frank Johnson and Human Rights in Alabama

By: Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Department of Political Science Tinsley E Yarbrough,Tinsley E. Yarbrough

Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama until his elevation to the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 1979, was perhaps President Dwight D. Eisenhower's most significant appointment to a lower court. His selection to the bench in 1955 followed by only a few months the Supreme Court's historic decision in Brown vs. Board of Education. During Judge Johnson's tenure, his court invalidated segregation and other forms of racial discrimination in Alabama's transportation facilities, voter registration processes, school and colleges, administrative agencies, system of jury selection, prisons, mental institutions, political parties, and government grant programs. In fact, most of the state's major racial crises were resolved in his courtroom. However, his impact on human rights policy in Alabama was not confined to a racial context. Among other significant developments, the Middle District Court ordered reapportionment of the state's governing bodies and invalidated its grossly inequitable property tax systems.Judge Johnson's decisions made him one of the most widely respected and controversial trial judges in the country. Until recently, however, his name was anathema to many white Alabamians, and he and his family were subject to ostracism, threats, violence, and verbal abuse.Yarbrough examines Judge Johnson's life through the end of the Wallace era and the Judge's appointment to the Fifth Circuit Court. More broadly, the book is a history of modern human rights reform in Alabama, cast in the biographical idiom. For, in a real sense, the history of the reform and of Judge Johnson's judicial career have been synonymous.

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0817312145

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Book's by Tinsley E. Yarbrough

John Marshall Harlan

John Marshall Harlan

A Passion for Justice

A Passion for Justice

The Rehnquist Court and the Constitution

The Rehnquist Court and the Constitution

David Hackett Souter

David Hackett Souter

A Passion for Justice

A Passion for Justice

Harry A. Blackmun

Harry A. Blackmun

The Rehnquist Court and the Constitution

The Rehnquist Court and the Constitution

Harry A. Blackmun

Harry A. Blackmun

David Hackett Souter

David Hackett Souter

The Burger Court

The Burger Court

Judge Frank Johnson and Human Rights in Alabama

Judge Frank Johnson and Human Rights in Alabama

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