All Judges Are Political--Except When They Are Not: Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law by Bybee, Keith
All Judges Are Political--Except When They Are Not: Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law by Bybee, Keith

All Judges Are Political--Except When They Are Not: Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law

We live in an age where one person's judicial activist legislating from the bench is another's impartial...
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All Judges Are Political--Except When They Are Not: Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law by Bybee, Keith

All Judges Are Political--Except When They Are Not: Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law

$58.13
All Judges Are Political--Except When They Are Not: Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law by Bybee, Keith

All Judges Are Political--Except When They Are Not: Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law

$58.13
Author: Keith Bybee
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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We live in an age where one person's judicial activist legislating from the bench is another's impartial arbiter fairly interpreting the law. After the Supreme Court ended the 2000 Presidential election with its decision in Bush v. Gore, many critics claimed that the justices had simply voted their political preferences. But Justice Clarence Thomas, among many others, disagreed and insisted that the Court had acted according to legal principle, stating: I plead with you, that, whatever you do, don't try to apply the rules of the political world to this institution; they do not apply.

The legitimacy of our courts rests on their capacity to give broadly acceptable answers to controversial questions. Yet Americans are divided in their beliefs about whether our courts operate on unbiased legal principle or political interest. Comparing law to the practice of common courtesy, Keith Bybee explains how our courts not only survive under these suspicions of hypocrisy, but actually depend on them.

Law, like courtesy, furnishes a means of getting along. It frames disputes in collectively acceptable ways, and it is a habitual practice, drummed into the minds of citizens by popular culture and formal institutions. The rule of law, thus, is neither particularly fair nor free of paradoxical tensions, but it endures. Although pervasive public skepticism raises fears of judicial crisis and institutional collapse, such skepticism is also an expression of how our legal system ordinarily functions.



Author: Keith Bybee
Publisher: Stanford Law Books
Published: 08/24/2010
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780804753128

About the Author
Keith J. Bybee is Paul E. and the Hon. Joanne F. Alper '72 Judiciary Studies Professor at Syracuse University College of Law. He is the editor of Bench Press: The Collision of Courts, Politics, and the Media (Stanford University Press, 2007).
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