Nixon's Court : his challenge to judicial liberalism and its political consequences

Nixon's Court : his challenge to judicial liberalism and its political consequences / Kevin J. McMahon.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McMahon, Kevin J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Nixon, Richard M. > (Richard Milhous), > 1913-1994 > Influence.
United States. > Supreme Court > History > 20th century.
Judges > Selection and appointment > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1969-1974.
Table of Contents:
  • Nixon's victory : oppositional presidents and the cycles of Supreme Court politics
  • The fight for the nomination : holding on for a second chance
  • Running to be "the One" : Nixon, divided democrats, and a chastened court
  • "Instead of listening to what we say . . . watch what we do" : electoral strategies, practical politics, and Nixon's judicial policy
  • Leading by following: Nixon, the Court, and the road to school desegregation
  • The Party of Lincoln's last stand? The GOP divide and the rejection of Nixon's southern strict constructionists (or, How Senate republicans made the court more liberal)
  • Fifty-three seconds that shaped the Court : Nixon's acceptable southerner and accidental ideologue (or, How liberals made the Court more conservative)
  • Fighting busing, crime, smut, and social disorder in America : strong rhetoric, selective action
  • Judicial decisions and the ballot box : Nixon's Court and the division of the democratic coalition
  • Evaluating the conservative counterrevolution through the Nixon/Rehnquist nexus.

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