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Smith, Christopher E.

The Supreme Court and the development of lawthrough the prism of prisoners' rights /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Supreme Court and the development of lawby Christopher E. Smith.
Reminder of title:	through the prism of prisoners' rights /
Author:	Smith, Christopher E.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :2016.
Description:	xiv, 227 p. :digital ;22 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	PrisonersCases.Civil rightsUnited States
Subject:	United States
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56763-5
ISBN:	9781137567635$q(electronic bk.)

The Supreme Court and the development of lawthrough the prism of prisoners' rights /
Smith, Christopher E.

The Supreme Court and the development of lawthrough the prism of prisoners' rights /[electronic resource] :by Christopher E. Smith. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :2016. - xiv, 227 p. :digital ;22 cm.

1 Shaping Constitutional Law: The Example of Prisoners' Rights -- 2 Pioneering Litigation: Black Muslims as an Assertive Political Minority -- 3 The Expansion and Contraction of Rights: Through the Eyes of Justice Marshall -- 4 A Protective Constitutional Vision: Justice Stevens and the Principles of Liberty -- 5 A Rejectionist Constitutional Vision: Justice Thomas and Originalist Arguments -- 6 The Pragmatic Middle and Its Consequences: The Influence of Justice O'Connor -- 7 Strategic Interaction: Persuasion and Accommodation in Opinion Writing -- 8 Redefinition of Precedent: The Influence of Justice Scalia -- 9 Reaction and Retrenchment.

This book illuminates the decision-making processes of the US Supreme court through an examination of several prisoners' rights cases. In 1964, the Supreme Court declined to hear prisoners' claims about religious freedom. In 2014, the Supreme Court heard a case that led to the justices' unanimous endorsement of a Muslim prisoner's religious right to grow a beard despite objections from prison officials. In the fifty-year span between those two events, the Supreme Court developed the law concerning rights for imprisoned offenders. As demonstrated in this book, the factors that shape Supreme Court decision making are well-illustrated by prisoners' rights cases. This area of law illuminates competing approaches to constitutional interpretation, behind-the-scenes interactions among the justices, and the manipulation of legal precedents. External actors also affect the Supreme Court and its decisions when the president appoints new justices and Congress targets the judiciary with legislative enactments. Because of the controversial nature of prisoners' rights issues, these cases serve to illuminate the full array of influences over Supreme Court decision making.

ISBN: 9781137567635$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-56763-5doiSubjects--Corporate Names:

381347
United States.
Supreme Court--Influence.Subjects--Topical Terms:

758560
Prisoners
--Civil rights--United States--Cases.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

236377
United States

LC Class. No.: KF9731 / .S65 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 344.730356

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