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The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional privileges are well known and much talked about. But those who want to guard those privileges need another thing as well: access to courts that can rule on their complaints. And on issues of access, the Court's record within the last technology has been almost uniformly hostile to the enforcement of individual citizens' constitutional privileges. The Court docket has restricted who has position to sue, extended the immunity of governments and government employees, limited the types of situations the federal government courts can notice, and constrained the right of habeas corpus. Shutting the Courthouse Door, by the recognized legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky, is the first book to show the effect of these decisions. Taken jointly, they add up to a growing limitation on citizens' ability to guard their privileges under the Constitution. Using many stories of men and women whose privileges have been trampled yet who had no legal recourse, Chemerinsky argues that enforcing the Constitution ought to be the federal courts' principal purpose, plus they shouldn't be barred from considering any constitutional question.
