Book contents
- The American Political Economy
- The American Political Economy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction The American Political Economy: A Framework and Agenda for Research
- I Political Arenas and Actors
- 1 Hurdles to Shared Prosperity: Congress, Parties, and the National Policy Process in an Era of Inequality
- 2 The Role of the Law in the American Political Economy
- 3 Collective Action, Law, and the Fragmented Development of the American Labor Movement
- II Race, Space, and Governance
- III Corporate Power and Concentration
- IV The American Knowledge Economy
- Bibliography
2 - The Role of the Law in the American Political Economy
from I - Political Arenas and Actors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 October 2021
- The American Political Economy
- The American Political Economy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction The American Political Economy: A Framework and Agenda for Research
- I Political Arenas and Actors
- 1 Hurdles to Shared Prosperity: Congress, Parties, and the National Policy Process in an Era of Inequality
- 2 The Role of the Law in the American Political Economy
- 3 Collective Action, Law, and the Fragmented Development of the American Labor Movement
- II Race, Space, and Governance
- III Corporate Power and Concentration
- IV The American Knowledge Economy
- Bibliography
Summary
On the same day that the White House announced the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court, it turned to business groups to aid in the public relations campaign to secure his confirmation (Goldstein 2018). Once seated, Kavanaugh solidified a strong pro-business orientation on the nation’s highest court, an orientation further consolidated with the eleventh-hour appointment of Amy Coney Barrett in the run-up to the November 2020 election. Meanwhile, the entire federal bench was also being transformed through the confirmations – at an unprecedented pace – of a string of young conservative jurists in the Trump administration (Ruiz et al. 2020). Most of the newest additions are drawn from the membership lists of the Federalist Society, a powerful organization composed of lawyers and legal scholars committed to an originalist reading of the American constitution and a radical free market economic ideology.
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- The American Political EconomyPolitics, Markets, and Power, pp. 76 - 102Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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