The Roberts court: the struggle for the constitution

✍ Scribed by Marcia Coyle

• Book ID: 100069978
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster;Blackstone Audio
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Edition: Unabridged
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1482923424

✦ Synopsis

The Roberts Court, seven years old, sits at the center of a constitutional maelstrom. Through four landmark decisions, Marcia Coyle, one of the most prestigious experts on the Supreme Court, reveals the fault lines in the conservative-dominated Court led by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.****

Seven minutes after President Obama put his signature to a landmark national health care insurance program, a lawyer in the office of Florida GOP attorney general Bill McCollum hit a computer key, sparking a legal challenge to the new law that would eventually reach the nation's highest court. Health care is only the most visible and recent front in a battle over the meaning and scope of the U.S. Constitution. The battleground is the United States Supreme Court, and one of the most skilled, insightful, and trenchant of its observers takes us close up to watch it in action.

Marcia Coyle's brilliant inside account of the High Court captures four landmark decisions--concerning...