Queen's court : judicial power in the Rehnquist era / Nancy Maveety.
"As frequent swing vote and centrist voice, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor helped shape many of the Supreme Court's landmark decisions and opinions under the leadership of William Rehnquist. Indeed, many argue that her overall impact and influence was greater than that of the Chief Justi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lawrence, Kan. :
University Press of Kansas,
[2008]
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| Summary: | "As frequent swing vote and centrist voice, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor helped shape many of the Supreme Court's landmark decisions and opinions under the leadership of William Rehnquist. Indeed, many argue that her overall impact and influence was greater than that of the Chief Justice himself." "Nancy Maveety now takes a closer look at what might justifiably be known as the O'Connor Court, in which the voices of individual justices came to the fore. She describes how policy leadership was subdivided among these eminent jurists in a way that fostered an individualist conception of judicial power. And she explains how this distribution of power contributed to a proliferation of concurring opinions and, in polarizing issues like Planned Parenthood v. Casey or the Michigan affirmative action cases, decisions that sidestepped precedent-setting principles." "Maveety's book is the first to look beyond the conventional wisdom that O'Connor's centrism gave her de facto control over a Court notorious for its disunity, providing instead a more precise and systematic analysis of her influence. Maveety seeks not only to assign a definitive meaning to "the Rehnquist Court" but also to identify its historical importance for the constitutional order and the conception of judicial power within it - situating O'Connor squarely at its center." "Queen's Court ultimately reveals that the importance of the Rehnquist years extends from the substance of constitutional law to the institutional operation of Court decision making - and that O'Connor was vital to those changes."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0700616101 9780700616107 |