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African Americans Civil rights Civil rights United States Discrimination in justice administration United States Ginsburg, Ruth Bader Police brutality United States Prevention Police power United States Race discrimination Law and legislation United States Tort liability of police United States United States United States. Supreme Court.Carmon, Irin
Summary: A visually rich, intimate, unprecedented look at the Justice and how she changed the world. From Ginsburg's refusal to let the slammed doors of sexism stop her to her innovative legal work, from her before-its-time feminist marriage to her perch on the nation's highest court, with the fierce dissents to match, get to know RBG as never before. As the country struggles with the unfinished...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GINSBURG, RUTH BADER CarZirin, James D.
Summary: "On the eve of a presidential election that may determine the makeup of Supreme Court justices for decades to come, prominent attorney James D. Zirin argues that the Court has become increasingly partisan, rapidly making policy choices right and left on bases that have nothing to do with law or the Constitution. Zirin explains how we arrived at the present situation and looks at the current...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 347 ZIRChemerinsky, Erwin
Summary: "The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well: access to courts that can rule on their complaints. And on matters of access, the Court's record over the past generation has been almost uniformly hostile to the enforcement of individual citizens' constitutional rights. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 347 CHEChemerinsky, Erwin
Summary: "Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court allows the perpetuation of racist policing by presuming that suspects, especially people of color, are guilty. Presumed Guilty, like the best-selling The Color of Law, is a "smoking gun" of civil rights research, a troubling history that reveals how the Supreme Court enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses. The fact that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021