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The Struggle for the Constitution
Simon & Schuster
May 2013
On Sale: May 7, 2013
400 pages ISBN: 1451627513 EAN: 9781451627510 Kindle: B008J4NC0O Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
The Roberts Court, seven years old, sits at the center of
a constitutional maelstrom. Through four landmark decisions,
Marcia Coyle, one of the most prestigious experts on the
Supreme Court, reveals the fault lines in the
conservative-dominated Court led by Chief Justice John
Roberts Jr. Seven minutes after President Obama
put his signature to a landmark national health care
insurance program, a lawyer in the office of Florida GOP
attorney general Bill McCollum hit a computer key, sparking
a legal challenge to the new law that would eventually reach
the nation’s highest court. Health care is only the most
visible and recent front in a battle over the meaning and
scope of the U.S. Constitution. The battleground is the
United States Supreme Court, and one of the most skilled,
insightful, and trenchant of its observers takes us close up
to watch it in action. Marcia Coyle’s
brilliant inside account of the High Court captures four
landmark decisions—concerning health care, money in
elections, guns at home, and race in schools. Coyle examines
how those cases began—the personalities and conflicts that
catapulted them onto the national scene—and how they
ultimately exposed the great divides among the justices,
such as the originalists versus the pragmatists on guns and
the Second Amendment, and corporate speech versus human
speech in the controversial Citizens United campaign case.
Most dramatically, her analysis shows how dedicated
conservative lawyers and groups are strategizing to find
cases and crafting them to bring up the judicial road to the
Supreme Court with an eye on a receptive conservative
majority. The Roberts Court offers a
ringside seat at the struggle to lay down the law of the land.
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