Search
Type
Format
Sort
Location
Audience

Breyer, Stephen G.

Summary: "Americans increasingly believe the Supreme Court is a political body in disguise. But Justice Stephen Breyer disagrees. Arguing that judges are committed to their oath to do impartial justice, Breyer aims to restore trust in the Court. In the absence ofthat trust, he warns, the Court will lose its authority, imperiling our constitutional system"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2021

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Breyer, Stephen G.

Summary: Justice Breyer discusses what the Court must do going forward to maintain that public confidence and argues for interpreting the Constitution in a way that works in practice. He forcefully rejects competing approaches that look exclusively to the Constitution's text or to the eighteenth-century views of the framers. Instead, he advocates a pragmatic approach that applies unchanging...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 347.73 BRE

Breyer, Stephen G.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Breyer, Stephen G.

Summary: "In this original, far-reaching and timely book, Justice Stephen Breyer examines the work of SCOTUS in an increasingly interconnected world, a world in which all sorts of public and private activity--from the conduct of national security policy to the conduct of international trade--obliges the Court to consider and understand circumstances beyond America's borders. At a time when ordinary...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 341.0973 BRE

Breyer, Stephen G.

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: An analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court's supermajority and makes the case for a better way to interpret the Constitution.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.
Back to Top