The politics of division and distraction, conservatives claims of liberalisms dangers, the wisdom of amoral foreign policy, a partisan challenge to a Supreme Court justice, and threats to the constitutionally mandated balance between the three branches of government: however of the moment these matters might seem, they are clearly presaged in events chronicled by Joshua E. Kastenberg in this book, the first in-depth account of a campaign to impeach Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas nearly fifty years ago.On April 15, 1970, at President Richard Nixons behest, Republican House Minority Leader Gerald Ford brazenly called for the impeachment of Douglas, the nations leading liberal judgeand the House Judiciary Committee responded with a six-month investigation, while the Senate awaited a potential trial that never occurred. Fords actions against Douglas mirrored the anger that millions of Americans, then as now, harbored toward changing social, economic, and moral norms, and a federal government seemingly unconcerned with the lives of everyday working white Americans. Those actions also reflected, as this book reveals, what came to be known as the Republicans southern strategy, a cynical attempt to exploit the hostility of white southern voters toward the civil rights movement. Kastenberg describes the political actors, ambitions, alliances, and maneuvers behind the move to impeach Douglasincluding the Nixon administrations vain hope of deflecting attention from a surprisingly unpopular invasion of Cambodiaand follows the ill-advised effort to its ignominious conclusion, with consequences that resonate to this day.Marking a turning point in American politics, The Campaign to Impeach Justice William O. Douglas is a sobering, cautionary tale, a critical chapter in the history of constitutional malfeasance, and a reminder of the importance of judicial independence in a politically polarized age.
Joshua E. Kastenberg
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Nixon, Vietnam, and the Conservative Attack on Judicial Independence
Campaign to Impeach Justice William O. Douglas [EPUB ebook]
Nixon, Vietnam, and the Conservative Attack on Judicial Independence
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Bahasa Inggeris ● Format EPUB ● Halaman-halaman 336 ● ISBN 9780700628490 ● Penerbit University Press of Kansas ● Diterbitkan 2020 ● Muat turun 3 kali ● Mata wang EUR ● ID 8220062 ● Salin perlindungan Adobe DRM
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