This comprehensive study of judicial reform contains recommendations from numerous leading scholars who advocate major changes in the federal court system. Some of the proposals entail establishing the right to reverse Supreme Court rulings by Congress, giving Congress veto power over federal rule-making agencies and granting tax credits to lawyers who voluntarily provide free legal services to the poor.
Ninth Justice is the story of a vigorous band of underfunded, determined, "movement" conservative activists who labored tirelessly for the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Judge Robert H. Bork after President Ronald Reagan nominated him to the Supreme Court in July 1987. It chronicles the organizational efforts primarily of Patrick B. McGuigan (Coalitions for America) and Daniel L. Casey (American Conservative Union)óboth intensely Republican, devout Catholics, ardent admirers of the nomineeówho understood from the first moment of the battle that they were involved in the most significant political confrontation of their lives.
