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Rhetoric and Discourse in Supreme Court Oral Arguments: Sensemaking in Judicial Decisions


ISBN13: 9780415640046
Published: January 2014
Publisher: Routledge
Country of Publication: USA
Format: Hardback
Price: £125.00



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While legal scholars, psychologists, and political scientists commonly voice their skepticism over the influence oral arguments have on the Court’s voting pattern, this book offers a contrarian position focused on close scrutiny of the justices’ communication within oral arguments.

Malphurs examines the rhetoric, discourse, and subsequent decision-making within the oral arguments for significant Supreme Court cases, visiting their potential power and danger and revealing the rich dynamic nature of the justices’ interactions among themselves and the advocates.

In addition to offering advancements in scholars’ understanding of oral arguments, this study introduces Sensemaking as an alternative to rational decision-making in Supreme Court arguments, suggesting a new model of judicial decision-making to account for the communication within oral arguments that underscores a glaring irony surrounding the bulk of related research—the willingness of scholars to criticize oral arguments but their unwillingness to study this communication.

With the growing accessibility of the Court’s oral arguments and the inevitable introduction of television cameras in the courtroom, this book offers new theoretical and methodological perspectives at a time when scholars across the fields of communication, law, psychology, and political science will direct even greater attention and scrutiny toward the Supreme Court.

Subjects:
Other Jurisdictions , USA
Contents:
1. A Letter to the Chief Justice of the United States
2. Historical Development of Legal Rhetoric and Supreme Court Oral Arguments
3. Do Oral Arguments before the Supreme Court Matter? A Simple Explanation
4. New Question: Oral Arguments "Matter," But How Do We Make Sense of Them? A Modest Proposal
5. Critical Theories and Research Questions: Proposing a Method to Capture the Madness of Oral Arguments
6. The Many Faces of Oral Argument: Oral Argument’s Purposes and the Justices’ Styles
7. Arguing about "Bong Hits 4 Jesus’ Testing Theory and Method in Morse v. Frederick
8. Making Sense of Child Rapists in Kennedy v. Louisiana: A Firsthand Observation
9. Historical Repercussions of Judicial Sensemaking: District of Columbia v. Dick Anthony Heller
10. The Ground Covered and New Ground to Uncover: Responding to Critics, Offering Recommendations, and a Final Letter to the Chief Justice
11. Biased Sensemaking: Compromising the Court’s Rhetorical Authority