Stephen G. Breyer
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Americans increasingly believe the Supreme Court is a political body in disguise. But Justice Stephen Breyer disagrees. Arguing that judges are committed to their oath to do impartial justice, Breyer aims to restore trust in the Court. In the absence of that trust, he warns, the Court will lose its authority, imperiling our constitutional system"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In this original, far-reaching and timely book, Justice Stephen Breyer examines the work of the Supreme Court of the United States in an increasingly interconnected world, a world in which all sorts of public and private activity--from the conduct of national security policy to the conduct of international trade--obliges the Court to consider and understand circumstances beyond America's borders. At a time when ordinary citizens may book international...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Justice Breyer discusses what the Court must do going forward to maintain that public confidence and argues for interpreting the Constitution in a way that works in practice. He forcefully rejects competing approaches that look exclusively to the Constitution's text or to the eighteenth-century views of the framers. Instead, he advocates a pragmatic approach that applies unchanging constitutional values to ever-changing circumstances--an approach...
Author
Series
Publisher
Fondo de Cultura Económica
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Español
Description
Estudio sobre la Suprema Corte de los Estados Unidos desde la perspectiva pragmática de un juez. El libro aborda el problema de la legitimidad democrática y su relación con la Corte, a través de ejemplos históricos que documentan los casos en que algunas resoluciones han sido ignoradas o desobedecidas. El autor propone enfoques prácticos para analizar la ley y explicar cómo la legitimidad de la Corte debe ser mantenida a partir de sentencias...
Publisher
Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
Language
English
Description
U.S. Supreme Court Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Anthony Kennedy, and Sandra Day O'Connor fielded questions in Washington Tuesday, May 16, 2006 from 50 high school students from the Philadelphia and Los Angeles areas. The students and justices discussed the significance of the judiciary and the ways that independence is protected by the Constitution.
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
United States Supreme Court decision on Thomas E. Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health, et al., Petitioners v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, et al. Includes the full text of the historic decision, highlighting the dramatic dissent."--
Publisher
Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
United States Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen Breyer talk about the Constitution with high school students and discuss why we have and need a constitution, what federalism is, how implicit and explicit rights are defined, and how separation of powers ensures that no one branch of government obtains too much power.
Series
Publisher
Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Disc 1. Freedom of speech: Amid the turmoil of the 1960s, students decided to wear black armbands to protest the Vietnam War, igniting a legal battle that led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969), which defined students' right to free speech in school. This conversation focuses on free speech in light of Tinker and the Morse v. Frederick (2007) case. Jury Service: This conversation...