Right Wing Justice

Herman Schwartz
March 2004     ISBN: 1560255668

Herman Schwartz reveals that the result of the conservative packing of the courts is that the rights of ordinary Americans are being eroded as Supreme Court rulings on abortion, school prayer, affirmative action, worker protection, environmental safety and preservation, and economic regulation are challenged or overturned. The stolen 2000 election is just the most notorious example of what this campaign has achieved. Combining a scholar's sense of history with the immediacy of eyewitness testimony, Right Wing Justice is both a sobering read, and a vital wake-up call to all American citizens.

Herman Schwartz is professor at the Washington College of Law at American University. He is the author of Packing the Court and The Struggle for Constitutional Justice in Post-Communist Europe and the editor and contributor to The Rehnquist Court and The Burger Years. He is the former Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the US Senate Antitrust & Monopoly Subcommittee and a former member of the US delegations to the UN Human Right Commission and to the World Human Rights Conference. He has consulted with numerous former Soviet bloc countries on constitutional and human rights reform.

"There's a hot war going on between President Bush and the Senate Democrats, with the shape and fate of the federal judiciary at stake. In Right Wing Justice renowned legal scholar Herman Schwartz offers the background you need to understand what's happening, and why it matters to you."

--Tom Wicker, former New York Times columnist, and author of A Time to Die

"Herman Schwartz, a caustic critic of the judges nominated by Presidents Reagan, Bush and George W. Bush, has written a colorful, informative and highly entertaining brief in support of his case. Whatever side you are on, it is well worth the attention of all those interested in the courts."

--Lloyd Cutler, Counsel to the President, 1979-80, 1994

Herman Schwartz is professor at the Washington College of Law at American University. He is the author of Packing the Court and The Struggle for Constitutional Justice in Post-Communist Europe and the editor and contributor to The Rehnquist Court and The Burger Years. He is the former Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the US Senate Antitrust & Monopoly Subcommittee and a former member of the US delegations to the UN Human Right Commission and to the World Human Rights Conference. He has consulted with numerous former Soviet bloc countries on constitutional and human rights reform.