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Dismantling the law.(Book Review)

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| November 01, 2002 | Bork, Robert H. | COPYRIGHT 2002 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

A man who had been blind from birth would be most unfortunate if he suddenly gained sight while standing before distorting mirrors in a carnival funhouse. The version suddenly revealed to him--men and women with grotesquely bloated bodies, faces out of surrealist nightmares, people upside down--would make what he supposed to be reality appalling and terrifying. So it is with Martin Garbus's new book, Courting Disaster: The Supreme Court and the Unmaking of American Law. (1) Should the book fall into the hands of anyone ignorant of the Court's constitutional jurisprudence, which is virtually all of the American public, he will be horrified to learn that extreme right-wing ...

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