Resources

"Restoring Civil Rights"
New York Times Editorial, Jan. 30, 2008
"In recent decades, and to much public acclaim, Congress passed a series of landmark laws designed to ensure equal rights for all Americans. Lately, and without much notice, the Supreme Court has been gutting them. Senator Edward Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, has introduced a pair of bills designed to undo the damage done by the court’s badly reasoned decisions. Congress should pass both without delay."
"Repealing the 20th Century"
Simon Lazarus for The American Prospect, Dec. 12, 2007
"While everyone focuses on its abortion decisions, the Roberts Court is merrily revoking a century of legislation protecting citizens, consumers, workers, and minorities against business."
"How Liberals Can Take Back the Court"
Douglas T. Kendall & James E. Ryan for The New Republic, August 6, 2007
"Liberals are going to have to borrow from Justice Antonin Scalia and the conservative lexicon. They should embrace the Constitution without hesitation and promise to appoint judges who will follow the commands of the Constitution. Then they should go after Republicans, hard, for not doing the same."
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Jeffrey Toobin, 2007
Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the most important — and secret — legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land.