Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court docket’s Fifty-12 months Battle for a Extra Unjust America

“Meticulously researched and engagingly written . . . a complete indictment of the court docket’s rulings in areas starting from marketing campaign finance and voting rights to poverty legislation and prison justice.” —Monetary Instances

A revelatory examination of the conservative route of the Supreme Court docket during the last fifty years.

 

In
Supreme Inequality, bestselling creator Adam Cohen surveys essentially the most important Supreme Court docket rulings for the reason that Nixon period and exposes how, opposite to what People prefer to imagine, the Supreme Court docket does little to guard the rights of the poor and deprived; in actual fact, it has not been on their aspect for 50 years. Cohen proves past doubt that the fashionable Court docket has been one of many main forces behind the nation’s hovering stage of financial inequality, and that an establishment revered as a supply of equity has been systematically making America much less honest.

A triumph of American authorized, political, and social historical past,
Supreme Inequality holds to account the very best court docket within the land and exhibits how a lot injury it has accomplished to America’s beliefs of equality, democracy, and justice for all.