Bibliograph

The nonsense factory, the making and breaking of the American legal system, Bruce Cannon Gibney

Type

Label

The nonsense factory, the making and breaking of the American legal system, Bruce Cannon Gibney

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-489) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The nonsense factory

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1051134157

Responsibility statement

Bruce Cannon Gibney

Sub title

the making and breaking of the American legal system

Summary

An examination of how over the past eighty years the legal system has increasingly confused quantity with quality and might with legitimacy. As the law bloats into chaos, it staggers only by excusing itself from the very commands it insists that we obey, leaving Americans victim to arbitrary, unconstitutional power. By examining the system as a whole, Gibney shows that the tragedies often portrays as isolated mistakes or the work of a few bad actors--police misconduct, prosecutorial overreach, and the outrages of imperial presidencies--are really the inevitable consequences of law's descent into lawlessness

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