Both historically and in the present, the Supreme Court has largely been a failure  In this devastating book, Erwin Chemerinsky—"one of the shining lights of legal academia" (The New York Times)—shows how, case by case,...

Over the last few decades, the Supreme Court and the federal appellate courts have undergone a dramatic shift to the right, the result of a determined effort by right-wing lawmakers and presidents to reinterpret the Constitution by re...