Reviews for Contempt: How the Right is Wronging American Justice

The average rating for Contempt: How the Right is Wronging American Justice based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-12-06 00:00:00 Manolo Gonzalez She thinks the Supreme Court leans right and has changed the law via Scalia, Thomas, Rehnquist, et al. to favor big business, and disfavor the individual and non religious. Far right wish list on abortion, church and state, gov. regulation, gay marriage (too late), on pages 90-1 Fundamentals: 1. Scriptures infallibility 2. The city of Christ (Jesus?) 3. Christ's virgin birth 4. The atonement achieved through Christ's (Jesus?) death. 5. Christ's literal resurrection and literal return in the second coming. p. 120 Right wing Christian groups p. 122 and following. John Locke test: If the belief cold not beat the scrutiny of rationality, it could not be accepted as the truth. p. 135 Jefferson believed in the God of reason. p. 135 Pledge of Allegiance Written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, described as a Marxist Socialist in 1924 the National Flag Conference added "of the United States of America." in 1954 law passed by both houses and signed by Pres. Eisenhower added " under God" in 1957, during Red Scare (McCarthy influence?) "In God We Trust" became motto on our money. p. 145 Good discussion of Constitutional Original Intent and arguing points.p. 167

Review # 2 was written on 2014-08-01 00:00:00 Mark Mandel I have skimmed this book and it has an easy reading ability and a lot of pictures and charts to help break things down. I was looking for a book to help me learn about the national court system. (This book doesn't look a the court system as much as it does congress). The back cover has a map of the United States and list whether each state has judges that were elected by a democratic president or republican. The majority of judges for federal district courts were appointed by Republican Presidents. The author is serious, passionate and sincere about this subject. In the credits she sites a team or researchers who helped her write this book, so it should be credible. The author is a former television news anchor, reporter, best selling author and I believe she was a judge in Texas. This is what convinced me to buy it. She talks a lot about specific Republican congressmen through out the book. I was sort of surprised to find such a book so radically to the left from a Texan judge and mainstream televison reporter. I imagined all reporters cowing to the white house.