Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism-Fast Shipping

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In this profound and fascinating book, the authors revisit an overlooked SupremeCourt decision that changed forever how justice is carried out in the United States.
In 1906, Ed Johnson was the innocent black man found guilty of the brutal rape ofNevada Taylor, a white woman, and sentenced to die in Chattanooga, lawyers, not even part of the original defense, appealed to the Supreme Courtfor a stay of execution, and the stay, incredibly, was with rageat the decision, locals responded by lynching Johnson, and what ensued was a breathtakingwhirlwind of groundbreaking legal action whose import, Thurgood Marshall would claim,”has never been fully explained.”Provocative, thorough, and gripping,
Contemptof Court is a long-overdue look at events that clearly depict the peculiar and tenuousrelationship between justice and the law.