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Author: Joshua E. Kastenberg ,
Fred Harris
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Imprint: University Press of Kansas
Dimensions:
Width: 15.70cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.660kg
ISBN: 9780700628483
ISBN 10: 0700628487
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 30 October 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This richly detailed history explores fascinating questions of judicial ethics, impeachment, and racial politics. Its deep-dive account of Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon's alliance to impeach William O. Douglas could not be more timely. - Noah Feldman, author of Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
Kastenberg's extensive archival research presents a comprehensive historical account of the maneuvers and motives surrounding the investigation of Supreme Court Justice William Douglas and revives political and constitutional questions that resonate today.--Review of PoliticsAn interesting and timely book.--Choice An important, provocative, and meticulous book, a welcome addition to the history of the Court--and of contemporary America.--VVA Veteran This richly detailed history explores fascinating questions of judicial ethics, impeachment, and racial politics. Its deep-dive account of Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon's alliance to impeach William O. Douglas could not be more timely.--Noah Feldman, author of Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court JusticesAfter his 'Wild Bill' decade in the 1960s, Justice William O. Douglas had every reason to fear being impeached in 1970, especially when Republican minority leader Gerald R. Ford, at the behest of the Nixon administration, argued that 'high crimes and misdemeanors' should be 'whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers [them] to be at a moment in history.' Joshua E. Kastenberg's exhaustive review of the unpublished congressional and Supreme Court documents unlocks the mystery of how Douglas survived the most serious threat to American judicial independence since the 1804 impeachment of Justice Samuel Chase. This book's thorough analysis of the politics of the impeachment process makes it truly instructive for our times.--Bruce Allen Murphy, author of Wild Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas
"This richly detailed history explores fascinating questions of judicial ethics, impeachment, and racial politics. Its deep-dive account of Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon’s alliance to impeach William O. Douglas could not be more timely."" - Noah Feldman, author of Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices"
This richly detailed history explores fascinating questions of judicial ethics, impeachment, and racial politics. Its deep-dive account of Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon's alliance to impeach William O. Douglas could not be more timely. --Noah Feldman, author of Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
Author Information
Joshua E. Kastenberg is associate professor of law and the Lee and Leon Karelitz Professor in Evidence and Procedure at the University of New Mexico School of Law. His many books include To Raise and Discipline an Army: Major General Enoch Crowder, the Judge Advocate General’s Office, and the Realignment of Civil and Military Relations in World War I and Law in War, War as Law: Brigadier General Joseph Holt and the Judge Advocate General’s Department in the Civil War and Early Reconstruction, 1861–1865.
