The Oath
The Obama White House and The Supreme Court
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The Oath
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Robertson Dean
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Narrated by:
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Robertson Dean
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Jeffrey Toobin
From the moment John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, blundered through the Oath of Office at Barack Obama's inauguration, the relationship between the Supreme Court and the White House has been confrontational. Both men are young, brilliant, charismatic, charming, determined to change the course of the nation—and completely at odds on almost every major constitutional issue. One is radical; one essentially conservative. The surprise is that Obama is the conservative—a believer in incremental change, compromise, and pragmatism over ideology. Roberts—and his allies on the Court—seek to overturn decades of precedent: in short, to undo the ultimate victory FDR achieved in the New Deal.
This ideological war will crescendo during the 2011-2012 term, in which several landmark cases are on the Court's docket—most crucially, a challenge to Obama's controversial health-care legislation. With four new justices joining the Court in just five years, including Obama's appointees Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, this is a dramatically—and historically—different Supreme Court, playing for the highest of stakes.
No one is better positioned to chronicle this dramatic tale than Jeffrey Toobin, whose prize-winning bestseller The Nine laid bare the inner workings and conflicts of the Court in meticulous and entertaining detail. As the nation prepares to vote for President in 2012, the future of the Supreme Court will also be on the ballot.
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What a stuffing of other stories & cases unrelated to the accurate subject that is : the Obama White House and USCO.
At least this is only what it's supposed to be !
In fact you're about to read a different book (you may have read before...)
Concerning the performance of R. Dean, you'll have to add 10 to 20% to speed up his diction - So you shall waste less time :O)
The beginning on the oath is tedious then it leads nowhere.
The author has missed his target & stepped off the mark.
Rather poor & largely off topic !
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