Anglický jazyk

The Tenth Seat

Vydavateľstvo: Steven Glazer
Rok vydania: 2022
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 216 x 140 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9798215497586

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O knihe

Much has been said in political news lately about "packing" the U.S. Supreme Court with additional Justices besides the present nine. This is nothing new in the history of the Court. Congress has changed the number to as few as six and as many as ten. This fiction is based on the life story of Stephen Johnson Field, the only tenth Justice to have ever served on the Supreme Court, who served from his 1863 appointment by President Abraham Lincoln until 1897. Not only is Justice Field known for being the second longest-serving Justice on the Court (William O. Douglas served the longest); he left his legal practice in New York City for the California Gold Rush of 1849. He practiced law in California during the wild early days of the Golden State. He became its Chief Justice only ten years after starting his law practice there. Everyone in 19th Century California knew him or of him. He was almost murdered by one of his best friends on the California Supreme Court for having played a role in the legal battles of the latter's scandalous wife -- his friend ended up being killed instead. This book explores the life of a judge, his judicial mindset, and how some of the decisions that shaped the course of American history were made. Justice Field took part in precedents from the racially-charged Plessy v. Ferguson to the commercially-seminal Slaughterhouse Cases, but was by no means a champion of any great cause. He was an ordinary man with contemporary tastes and beliefs that he formed over an extraordinary life.