El. knyga: Pushback: The Political Fallout of Unpopular Supreme Court Decisions

This wonderful book deserves widespread attention. It is a remarkable piece of work and one that is provocative in the best sense of the word.Laura Kalman, Distinguished Research Professor of History, UC Santa Barbara, author of FDRs Gambit: The Court-Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism

Pushback offers a deep insight into the Supreme Courts role in constructing, sustaining, and ultimately undermining the regimes students of American political development have identified. Dave Bridge argues that the Supreme Court often responds to signals from factions within a governing coalition, articulating the principles those factions believe characterize the regime they support. But, just as political time is only loosely connected to calendar time, so too is judicial time only loosely connected to political time. Sometimes Court decisions push the boundaries of a regimes principles beyond the point where they are politically sustainable, thereby opening up the opportunity for the regimes opponentsand potential successorsto make the Courts decisions a focus of their campaigns: backlash, in short. Bridge applies his analysis to a range of contemporary constitutional issues, identifying those that are (and arent) good candidates for party-building pushback. Bridges provocative and important argument should become a major element in future scholarship on the Supreme Court and regime politics.Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law emeritus, Harvard Law School, coauthor of Constitutionalism and Its Discontents Pushback offers the rare combination of rich history and sophisticated theory in exploring the ways in which the American people and governing officials respond to unpopular Supreme Court decisions. Scholars, political activists, and all interested readers have much to learn from Dave Bridges fascinating study of the successes, failures, and everything in between of political efforts to thwart judicial efforts to tell the rest of us what our Constitution means.Mark Graber, University of Maryland, Carey School of Law, author of Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform After the Civil War

(Bridge) should be commended for the excellent selection of issues and level of historical detail. This volume undeniably contributes to scholarship on the role of Supreme Court decisions in electoral politics and how political parties respond to those controversial decisions, especially in the wake of the Dobbs decision. Choice