Richard C Cahn

Gebundenes Buch

Making Law

A Memoir of Good Times

Beschreibung

This unique memoir is right up-to-date! The author warmly tells stories about six of his very public court cases and shows us what good things can be done when lawyers and judges have a little imagination, a sense of justice, and the willingness to do the right thing. These adventure stories tell of regular people fighting for their rights, sometimes threatened by private groups, and sometimes by the government itself: a right-to-life group trying to take a frail baby away from her parents for surgery that they and their baby's doctors thought should wait; distraught parents and grandparents trying to get unwilling Justice Department officials in Washington to prosecute their former son-in-law for the murders of their loved ones; and a cadet at newly-co-ed West Point learning shortly before his scheduled graduation and commissioning that the Academy "brass" intend to expel him for "walking" with a female cadet, and how they all won! Those cases tell us why the subtitle, "A Memoir of Good Times" -- exactly fit. A new chapter, entitled "Courting Disaster," presents a contrast, by picking up on the book's 2021 Epilogue that described how the American justice system was being undermined by former President Trump and his supporters. The new narrative tells a disheartening story of a Supreme Court -- supposedly the role model for all courts in the country -- whose reputation continues to drop, now ruled by a highly partisan group of six justices who are unable or unwilling to tear themselves away from the current Republican party line, not to mention some refusing to honor the principles that they agreed to in their own Code of Conduct. The author hasn't yet changed the book's subtitle, because he is hoping we can bring back those "good times." Maybe we can! Don't be intimidated: this fascinating and friendly book is not written for lawyers. It makes the legal material easily understandable; it was written for all of us.

Autor

Richard C. Cahn started his career in the Justice Department as a member of Attorney General Herbert Brownell's Program for Honor Law Graduates, and went on to practice law as a private attorney for more than 60 years, fighting court battles pitting ordinary citizens and the government against each other. He argued the nation's first local government reapportionment case before the Supreme Court. He became President of a major County Bar Association, served for many years on judicial screening committees for the federal and state courts, prosecuted attorneys for professional misconduct, and was a regional counsel for the State University of New York. Unlike many, he believes that judges have long "legislated from the bench" when necessary to do justice, and that they deserve admiration and respect for doing so, rather than condemnation. He also believes that because many court cases are being brought today in an attempt to change public policies about which the two major political parties passionately disagree, it is particularly important that the judges deciding them be free of partisan political influence, as intended by the Founders, and we must put a stop to actions of the executive and legislative branches of the government to demean, weaken, and politicize the courts. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale Law School.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gatekeeper Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 595g
• ISBN-13: 9781642379518
• ISBN-10: 1642379514
• Artikelnr.: 59187651