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Pub. Date
1997, ©1996
Description
Discusses the Supreme Court's decision making process, based on documentary sources and interviews with justices and law clerks. Provides insight into some of the most important cases to come before the court and includes portraits of many of the justices in action.
9) High crimes
Description
An attorney's perfect world comes crashing down when her husband is accused of killing innocent civilians during a covert operation 15 years earlier.
10) Kids go to court
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
A mix of live action and animation teaches kids about the justice system and demonstrates the court procedure through a mock trial. Kids will learn how disputes result in a trial and the roles that different people play in the legal process.
11) Suspect
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
"Bizarre evidence leads Kathleen on a dangerous trail from Washington's seamy underbelly to the highest levels of government. And the closer she gets to the answers, the more her life is in danger. Cher and Dennis Quaid take the law into their own hands in this daring suspense thriller where everything is revealed in court--except the truth."
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
As Benjamin Franklin left the Constitutional Convention, he was reportedly asked what kind of government the founders would propose. He replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” In this book, Justice Neil Gorsuch shares personal reflections, speeches, and essays that focus on the remarkable gift the framers left us in the Constitution. Justice Gorsuch draws on his thirty-year career as a lawyer, teacher, judge, and justice to explore essential...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Offers an overview of crime and the American criminal justice system, using extensive examples of real cases to illustrate difficult questions about what is considered criminal and what punishment is appropriate for different types of crimes.
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Description
The right to express one's political views seems an indisputable part of American life. After all, the First Amendment proudly proclaims that Congress can make no law abridging the freedom of speech. But well into the twentieth century, that right was still an unfulfilled promise, with Americans regularly imprisoned merely for protesting government policies. Indeed, our current understanding of free speech comes less from the First Amendment itself...
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Historian Edward Lazarus, a former clerk to Justice Harry A. Blackmun, guides the reader through the Court's inner sanctum, explaining as only an eyewitness can the collisions of law, politics, and personality as the Justices wrestle with the most fiercely disputed issues of our time.
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