Closed Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court - Hardcover

Lazarus, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812924029 ISBN 13: 9780812924022

Publisher: Times Books, 1998

Synopsis

For the first time, a former law clerk to the Supreme Court reveals how the Court decides its cases, offering a devastating portrait of justice perverted by politics and unduly influenced by the power of anonymous clerks. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

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Review:

Ambitious, opinionated, scholarly, gossipy ... wonderful. "Closed Chambers" is a crash course in contemporary constitutional and judicial culture. ("Newsday")

"Ambitious, opinionated, scholarly, gossipy wonderful. Closed Chambers is a crash course in contemporary constitutional law and judicial culture." Newsday

"Lazarus has opened a window on matters that are usually kept secret. [He] should be praised for shedding light where it is needed." The Washington Post

"Impeccably resarched and impressibly documented will fascinate diehard court-watchers." The Boston Globe

"The Court needs critics and members with Lazarus's intellectual clarity and deep attachment to its best traditions." Los Angeles Times

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"Ambitious, opinionated, scholarly, gossipy ... wonderful. Closed Chambers is a crash course in contemporary constitutional law and judicial culture." --Newsday

"Lazarus has opened a window on matters that are usually kept secret. ... [He] should be praised ... for shedding light where it is needed." --The Washington Post

"Impeccably resarched and impressibly documented ... will fascinate diehard court-watchers." --The Boston Globe

"The Court needs critics--and members--with Lazarus's intellectual clarity and deep attachment to its best traditions." --Los Angeles Times

From the Back Cover:

"Operating within a Network of Byzantine Secrecy, The United States Supreme Court is the most powerful judicial institution in the world. Nine unelected justices are charged with protecting our most cherished rights and shaping our fundamental laws."--BOOK JACKET. "In this account, Edward Lazarus, who served as a clerk to Justice Harry Blackmun, provides an insider's guided tour of a court at war with itself and often in neglect of its constitutional duties. Combining memoir, history, and legal analysis, Lazarus weaves together past and present to reveal how law, politics, and personality collide in the Court's inner sanctum."--BOOK JACKET.

About this edition

• Publisher: Times Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0812924029
• ISBN 13: 9780812924022
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576