Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America

Fewer than one hundred people have served on the United States Supreme Court. They are unelected. They serve for life. They are largely unknown to most Americans. And as few as five of them can dictate economic, cultural, criminal, and security policy for the entire nation. Mark Levin thinks that is a problem, and in Men in Black, he makes the case with the detailed, unflinching analysis for which he is known. The founders had a clear vision for the role of the judiciary: to interpret the law, not to make it. What they created has become something else entirely. Levin catalogues the abuses: a Court that protects virtual child pornography and flag burning as free speech while preventing students from hearing a prayer at graduation; that inserted the phrase "wall of separation between church and state" into constitutional law on the authority of a former Klansman; that has dictated that illegal aliens have a constitutional right to public education. These are not interpretations of the Constitution. They are impositions on it. Men in Black is a pointed, historically grounded account of how the Supreme Court has broken through the limits the founders set for it, and what that means for American self-government.