Ian Millhiser
1) Injustices: the Supreme Court's history of comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted
Author
Language
English
Description
"Few American institutions have inflicted greater suffering on ordinary people than the Supreme Court of the United States. In this powerful indictment of a venerated institution, constitutional law expert Ian Millhiser tells the history of the Supreme Court through the eyes of everyday people who have suffered the most as a result of its judgments. The justices built a nation where children toiled in coal mines and cotton mills, where Americans could...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Description
143 pages : map ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"From 2011, when Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives, until the present, Congress enacted hardly any major legislation outside of the tax law President Trump signed in 2017. In the same period, the Supreme Court dismantled much of America's campaign finance law, severely weakened the Voting Rights Act, permitted states to opt-out of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, weakened laws protecting against age discrimination...
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Description
128 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Since 1989, there have been over 2,200 exonerations in the United States. These have resulted from a number of factors, including the discovery of new evidence, perjury, false identification, and bad forensic evidence. Even when an individual is exonerated, is it possible to compensate them for their loss of time and money? This volume looks at the issue from varying perspectives, exploring causes of wrongful convictions, ways to increase exonerations...
