Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Courtroom’s Fifty-Yr Battle for a Extra Unjust America

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

A revelatory examination of the conservative path of the Supreme Courtroom over the past fifty years.

 

In
Supreme Inequality, bestselling writer Adam Cohen surveys essentially the most vital Supreme Courtroom rulings because the Nixon period and exposes how, opposite to what Individuals wish to imagine, the Supreme Courtroom does little to guard the rights of the poor and deprived; in truth, it has not been on their aspect for 50 years. Cohen proves past doubt that the trendy Courtroom 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 truthful.

A triumph of American authorized, political, and social historical past,
Supreme Inequality holds to account the best courtroom within the land and reveals how a lot harm it has executed to America’s beliefs of equality, democracy, and justice for all.