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Nixon's Court: His Challenge to Judicial Liberalism and Its Political Consequences

Nixon's Court: His Challenge to Judicial Liberalism and Its Political Consequences

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By Kevin J. McMahon

Most analysts have deemed Richard Nixon’s challenge to the judicial liberalism of the Warren Supreme Court a failure—“a counterrevolution that wasn’t.” Nixon’s Court offers an alternative assessment. Kevin J. McMahon reveals a Nixon whose public rhetoric was more conservative than his administration’s actions and whose policy towards the Court was more subtle than previously recognized. Viewing Nixon’s judicial strategy as part political and part legal, McMahon argues that Nixon succeeded substantially on both counts.

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