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000470998 1001_ $$aMcMahon, Kevin J.
000470998 24510 $$aNixon's Court :$$bhis challenge to judicial liberalism and its political consequences /$$cKevin J. McMahon.
000470998 260__ $$aChicago :$$bThe University of Chicago Press,$$c2011.
000470998 300__ $$axiii, 343 p. :$$bill. ;$$c24 cm.
000470998 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [317]-330) and index.
000470998 5050_ $$aNixon's victory : oppositional presidents and the cycles of Supreme Court politics -- The fight for the nomination : holding on for a second chance -- Running to be "the One" : Nixon, divided democrats, and a chastened court -- "Instead of listening to what we say . . . watch what we do" : electoral strategies, practical politics, and Nixon's judicial policy -- Leading by following: Nixon, the Court, and the road to school desegregation -- The Party of Lincoln's last stand? The GOP divide and the rejection of Nixon's southern strict constructionists (or, How Senate republicans made the court more liberal) -- Fifty-three seconds that shaped the Court : Nixon's acceptable southerner and accidental ideologue (or, How liberals made the Court more conservative) -- Fighting busing, crime, smut, and social disorder in America : strong rhetoric, selective action -- Judicial decisions and the ballot box : Nixon's Court and the division of the democratic coalition -- Evaluating the conservative counterrevolution through the Nixon/Rehnquist nexus.
000470998 520__ $$aIn seeking to appeal to voters he would later call the "great silent majority," presidential candidate Richard Nixon laid down a challenge to the Warren Supreme Court in 1968, blaming it for the nation's recent crime wave and the unrest plaguing America's urban core. Inspired by his success in the election, Nixon maneuvered during the course of his presidency to alter the Court in hopes of making it work for him. Most analysts, however, have deemed Nixon's challenge to the judicial liberalism of the Warren Supreme Court a failure--"a counterrevolution that wasn't." Nixon's Court offers an alternative assessment. Kevin J. McMahon reveals a Nixon whose public rhetoric was more conservative than his administration's actions and whose policy toward the Court was more subtle than previously recognized. Viewing Nixon's judicial strategy as part political and part legal, McMahon argues that Nixon succeeded substantially on both counts. Many of the issues dear to social conservatives, such as abortion and school prayer, were not nearly as important to Nixon. Consequently, his nominations for the Supreme Court were chosen primarily to advance his "law and order: and school desegregation agendas--agendas the Court eventually endorse. But there were also political motivations to Nixon's approach: he wanted his judicial policy to be conservative enough to attract white southerners and northern white ethnics disgruntled with the Democratic Party but not so conservative as to drive away independents and moderates in his own party. In essence, then, he used his criticisms of the Court to speak to members of his "silent majority" in hopes of disrupting the long-dominant New Deal Democratic coalition. For McMahon, Nixon's judicial strategy succeeded not only in shaping the course of constitutional law in the areas he most desired but also in laying the foundation of an electoral alliance that would dominate presidential politics for a generation.
000470998 60010 $$aNixon, Richard M.$$q(Richard Milhous),$$d1913-1994$$xInfluence.
000470998 61010 $$aUnited States.$$bSupreme Court$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000470998 650_0 $$aJudges$$xSelection and appointment$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000470998 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xPolitics and government$$y1969-1974.
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