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Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group
Pub. Date:
©2019
Language:
English
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In this definitive deep dive into the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, two women with extraordinary behind-the-scenes access--The Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway and Judicial Crisis Network senior counsel Carrie Severino--reveal what really happened and explore what the bitterly divisive hearings mean for the future of the Court and the battle for the soul of America.
Publisher:
International Platform of Jurists for East Ti
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
In the first book IPJET published in 2007 on the legal issues involved in the Western Sahara dispute a number of esteemed scholars discussed a myriad of issues that were pertinent to the topic at that time. Since then a number of other issues have arisen which have added to or complemented the discussions raised in that book, and the current edition seeks to present some of the most important of these in four sections: first, an updated discussion...
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Publisher:
Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Discover the compelling narratives behind landmark legal battles that reshaped the fabric of justice in Justice on Trial: How High-Profile Court Cases Change the Law. Authored by Sean Dupree, this riveting book dives into cases that challenged societal norms, highlighted systemic flaws, and left an indelible mark on law and society. Explore the stories of Rodney Reed, the Central Park Five, and Brown v. Board of Education. Delve into the chilling...
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Publisher:
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER! Justice Anthony Kennedy slipped out of the Supreme Court building on June 27, 2018, and traveled incognito to the White House to inform President Donald Trump that he was retiring, setting in motion a political process that his successor, Brett Kavanaugh, would denounce three months later as a "national disgrace" and a "circus." Justice on Trial, the definitive insider's account of Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court,...
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Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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History remembers John Adams as a Founding Father and our country's second president. But in the tense years before the American Revolution, he was still just a lawyer, fighting for justice in one of the most explosive murder trials of the era. On the night of March 5, 1770, shots were fired by British soldiers on the streets of Boston, killing five civilians. The Boston Massacre has often been called the first shots of the American Revolution. As...
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Publisher:
PublicAffairs
Language:
English
Description:
Examines the efforts of lawful nations to impose justice on those responsible for crimes against humanity and the limited success of international courts, and discusses the legal and ethical issues surrounding the status of Al Qaeda plotter Khalid SheikhMohammed.
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Language:
English
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Bill Kurtis, anchor of the wildly popular true-crime TV series "Cold Case Files" and "American Justice", used to support the death penalty. But after observing the machinations of the justice system for thirty years, he came to a stunning realization that changed his life: Capital punishment is wrong. There can be no real justice in America until it is abolished. In "The Death Penalty on Trial", Kurtis takes readers on his most remarkable investigative...
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Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
In 2014, after a decade of political turmoil, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) carried out Thailand's 13th coup since the country's transformation from absolute to constitutional monarchy in 1932. Though the NCPO promised to restore the rule of law, justice-long tenuous in Thailand-disappeared entirely. The legal system was used to criminalize the thoughts and actions of democratic dissidents, facilitate extrajudicial violence, and...
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Publisher:
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony--before even Lizzie Borden--there was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation's debut media circus. On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old mother Emeline Houseman and her infant daughter, Ann Eliza. In a perverse nativity, someone bludgeoned...
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Publisher:
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
The Trial is actually closer to reality than fantasy as far as the client's perception of the system. It's supposed to be a fantastic allegory, but it's reality. It's very important that lawyers read it and understand this." Justice Anthony Kennedy famously offered this assessment of the Kafkaesque character of the American criminal justice system in 1993. While Kafka's vision of the "Law" in The Trial appears at first glance to be the antithesis...