Love on trial -- Logic on trial -- Nature on trial -- Persecution on trial -- Conscience on trial -- Nativity on trial -- Sexuality on trial -- Imagination on trial -- Art on trial -- Memory on trial -- Orthodoxy on trial -- The family on trial -- The family on trial -- An American hypothesis -- An American allegory -- Postscript -- Appendix: Article five and Amendment one
Summary
The U.S. Supreme Court has ceased to be a strictly legal institution, if it ever was one. That's why we see such impassioned political struggles over any appointment of a new Justice. The contentiousness includes, moreover, the nature of the role which the Justices now claim for themselves, that of an originator of new laws and policies. The question is explored here through a careful selection and reassessment of a dozen very interesting and controversial cases
