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Supreme Injustice Guilty until proven not Catholic? THE presumption of innocence is a bedrock of Western jurisprudence, refined over centuries. However, in modern Australia, if the accuser is female and the accused a conservative Catholic priest, that presumption in trials by media and courts alike appears to have been turned on its head for a novel axiom: ‘believe all women’.
Alan Dershowitz’s Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000 provides a thorough, albeit at times partisan, account of the 2000 Presidential Election. Dershowitz’s analysis enables specialists and non-specialists alike to appreciate the complexity of the issues involved in determining the “real” or “legal” winner in the 2000 Presidential Election.
June 1, 2001. Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000 is a book by Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's 5–4 majority decision as partisan in Bush v. Gore, which ended the Florida election recount . Dershowitz also said that the majority justices "shamed themselves and the Court on which they ...
3 de dic. de 2018 · Supreme Injustice contains no call to topple monuments or to rewrite history books. [Finkelman] simply lays out a convincing case that we must in thinking about our national heritage grapple with the unsettling truths about the humanity we denied slaves and the legal protections we gave their owners.
The supreme injustice in Webb and other slavery cases was American law’s premise that some human beings can be classified as property. Finkelman is correct when he says that Marshall, Story, Taney, and their fellow judges could have made black lives somewhat better, notwithstanding the constraints imposed by the proslavery
Supreme Injustice effectively combines biography and legal history, but Finkelman overstates his arguments at times. For example, he claims that Marshall’s ruling in Adams, qui tam v. Woods (1805), which applied a two-year statute of limitations to aspects of a 1794 slave trade law, “eviscerated a key statute designed to suppress illegal American participation in the trade” (81).
4 de oct. de 2012 · Supreme injustice : ... The author examines "the U.S. Supreme Court's role in ending the presidential election of 2000 with its controversial ruling in ...
