The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America.

Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: A Rebellion against the Monarchy -- In the Beginning . . . -- A Suicide Pact -- Corporate America Seizes the Court -- Part One: The Hidden History of Judicial Review -- The Founders' Vision -- The Glue That Binds Us Together -- A Bold Experiment -- Debating the Supreme Court -- Where Does the New Buck Stop? -- The Power Grab -- Whoever Controls the Law Controls the Country -- Jefferson: "The People Themselves" -- Who Decides What the Constitution Means? -- The Powell Memo and the Court -- Partisan Politics in "Original Intent" -- Originalism Is Joined by Textualism -- One True Spokesman -- Clear Preferences versus Ambiguities -- The Corruption of the Court Itself -- Fossil Fuels Seize the Court -- Right-Wing Takeover and Corporate Handouts -- The Constitution Afflicts the Afflicted and Comforts the Comfortable -- The Constitution Protects Property and Its Owners -- The Constitution Protects Killers and Slave Owners -- The Constitution Prefers Property Rights to Human Rights -- The Constitution Protects Takers, Not the Taken -- Part Two: The Hidden History of the People and the Court -- The Supreme Court versus Labor -- Haymarket and Allgeyer: The Public Turns against Labor and the Court Follows -- The Great Depression: The Public Embraces Labor and the Supreme Court Follows -- FDR Tries to Pack the Supreme Court -- The Court Devastates Union Rights -- The Supreme Court versus Civil Rights -- "Separate but Equal": Created by the Court, Ended through Popular Struggle -- The Road to Plessy -- Charles Houston and the Long Slog to End Jim Crow -- Brown: The Supreme Court Overrules Itself -- How Roe Empowered the Right -- The Supreme Court and the Environment -- Local Zoning Law as Early Environmental Law -- Protecting the Environment Goes Federal.

The Planet's Future on Trial -- In Nature's Trust -- Our Children's Trust -- A New Hurdle to Climate Justice -- How Communities Fight Back -- How Idealogues and Partisans Seized the Court: From Nixon to Trump -- Reagan and the Court -- George H. W. Bush Avoids Prosecution -- George W. Bush and the Court -- An Astroturf Resistance in Florida -- Trump and the Court -- If We'd Had Clean Elections -- Part Three: To Save the Planet, Democratize, and Modernize the Supreme Court -- Regulating the Number of Justices on the Court -- Term Limits -- Cameras in the Courtroom -- The Constitutional Amendment Remedy for an Out-of-Control Court -- The Last Resort: Strip the Courts -- The Roberts Plan to Strip the Courts -- Court Stripping in the 20th Century -- A Planetary Emergency -- Taking Democracy Back from the Court -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the Author.

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