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Lincoln Caplan, "American Justice 2016"
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October 22, 2016
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1:00:00Now PlayingCaplan’s latest book looks at the Supreme Court’s work during the term that ended in June 2016, which he analyzes for signs of what he argues is the growing politicization of recent High Court decisions. While in theory the judiciary should be free of politics, Caplan argues that decisions including those on the 2000 presidential election, abortion, campaign finance law, and other issues reflect national political divisions. Caplan, currently the Truman Capote Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, considers, first, whether the ideal of an objective judiciary is realistic and, second, what politicization could mean for future cases involving divisive social and political questions.
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