{"id":2572,"date":"2017-01-05T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:23:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:23:29","slug":"book-log-2-the-supremes-greatest-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2572","title":{"rendered":"Book Log #2: The Supremes&#8217; Greatest Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Supremes&#8217; Greatest Hits: The 44 Supreme Court Cases that Most Directly Affect Your Life<\/em> by Michael G. Trachtman [Little Shop of Stories, Paperback, Xmas gift]<\/p>\n<p>This was a fascinating summary of some biggies; most I knew about, but many I was unaware of, and almost all I was unaware of the the nitty-gritty details.<\/p>\n<p>In general, I&#8217;m a left-leaning person, but I also like to do things by the letter and spirit of the law.  More than once I was pleased with an outcome while simultaneously not comfortable with the reasoning that got us there, and vice-versa.<\/p>\n<p>I came away with the sense that law is a messy business, and thoroughly fascinating.  Good (and quick) read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supremes&#8217; Greatest Hits: The 44 Supreme Court Cases that Most Directly Affect Your Life by Michael G. Trachtman [Little Shop of Stories, Paperback, Xmas gift] This was a fascinating summary of some biggies; most I knew about, but many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2572\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513],"tags":[515],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions\/2583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}