Book Review Of The Oath: The Obama White House & the Supreme Court
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Book Review Of “The Oath: The Obama White House & the Supreme Court”
“The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court,” is a masterpiece written by a radical American jurist, writer, and legal analyst for CNN, Jeffrey Toobin and published by Doubleday publishers in 2012. In this book, Toobin offers an insider’s interpretation of the socio-political metamorphoses between the Chief Justice John Roberts and the conformist jurisprudence dogmas of Obama’s administration (Toobin, 2012). The author of the book, Toobin, is depicted as a parochial individual who constantly disparages conservatives for their duplicity, acrimony, and bizarre ideologies. Additionally, although Toobin accords Chief Justice Robert some reverence, he illustrates him as a bigoted member of Republican Party (Toobin, 2012). Moreover, he relates him with liberals in the courts whom he defines with an optimistic and often radiant terms.
The book aims at illustrating the level of conflict between the conservative Roberts courts and the Obamas administration which was commenced during the inauguration of Barack Obama as the president in which there was an erroneous repetition of the oath of office (Toobin, 2012). Toobin critics Obama and portrays him as a conservative who believes in incremental change that is led by democratic movements. Moreover, Obama has portrayed as a pragmatist and not an ideologue individual. Over the course of the book, Toobin introduces a variety of personalities, jurisprudential attitudes, and biographies which are chronologically arranged. In the opening chapters, the author describes Roberts’s appointment to the SCOTUS and ends with his decision in Obamacare health bill, commonly known as Sibelius. In part one, the author contrasts Obama and Roberts political philosophies and biographical histories and depicts the Roberts courts as being...