Courting justice gay man and lesbian v the supreme court

Description:Even readers not especially interested in gay and lesbian civil rights will gain a clearer understanding of how the Supreme Court and lower courts operate. In order to better understand these cases, the authors describe the justices behind them—not just their ideological stances but their history, background, relationship with clerks Lewis Powell, a justice in the '80s, had many gay clerks yet remained oblivious to the outside world and how their perspectives on the issues changed the longer they sat on the bench. Texas that occurred after this book's publication, this book is not dated, because, unfortunately, the tendency of even Supreme Court justices to hold an outdated, irrational view and then rationalize so that they may make judgments to that view is alive and well. This is an important book for not only gays and lesbians but anyone who may, if people like Scalia have their way, be at the mercy of a "dead" Constitution and a majority that is all too quick to force a subjective idea of morality on everyone. It also has its villains, especially the infamous Scalia, who clearly has a prejudice against gays and lesbians as well as a brutal reading of the Constitution that would limit the rights of every citizen in our country to those specifically enumerated in

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