This book reveals how the nominations of Judge Charles Pickering, Judge Priscilla Owen, and other Bush judicial nominees, even Supreme Court nominees, could proceed smoothly through the Senate confirmation hearings. Read "The 37th Amendment" for the secret to silencing any member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Footnotes included. Contact Editor@ExtremeInk.com for more information.
The Pickering Problem: New Book Sheds Light on Battle Over Judicial Nominees
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A new novel reveals the real reason the Senate confirmation process for federal judges has turned so political: For over fifty years, the American people have expected and accepted that the Constitution will be rewritten by "test cases" instead of constitutional amendments. Vital policymaking powers now belong to the federal courts, the unelected branch of government that the founders excluded from policymaking. That's the argument made by author Susan Shelley in the new legal thriller, "The 37th Amendment." Set in the year 2056, forty years after a 37th Amendment has removed "due process of law" from the U.S. Constitution, the book includes a thoroughly-researched appendix titled "How the First Amendment Came to Protect Topless Dancing." It shows how the Supreme Court used the Constitution's due process clauses to expand individual rights far beyond what was intended by the Constitution's authors. Civil rights advocates are not wrong to believe that judges who are strict constructionists could roll back the progress of the last fifty years, Shelley demonstrates, because the Constitution has never been amended to ban racial discrimination. The Congress that wrote the Fourteenth Amendment considered language that would have banned discrimination on the basis of race, but voted it down. The members expressed fears that the courts might use the language to strike down, among other things, school segregation. Just as civil rights have been secured by a series of 20th-century Supreme Court decisions, so have women's rights, abortion rights, and constitutional rights in state courts. All are the result of judicial interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment, interpretations that could possibly be changed or reversed by a future Court. "The 37th Amendment" offers a look at a future America in which people have stopped fighting over judges because they have amended the Constitution to secure their rights. Wrapped in a riveting story about murder, crime, corruption and high-profile criminal trials, it's a thought-provoking argument.
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