With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
From the Book Description:
"From the nation's beginnings, the law was to be the great equalizer in American life, the guarantor of a common set of rules for all. But over the past four decades, the principle of equality before the law has been effectively abolished. Instead, a two-tiered system of justice ensures that the country's political and financial class is virtually immune from prosecution, licensed to act without restraint, while the politically powerless are imprisoned with greater ease and in greater numbers than in any other country in the world.
"Starting with Watergate, continuing on through the Iran-Contra scandal, and culminating with Obama's shielding of Bush-era officials from prosecution, Glenn Greenwald lays bare the mechanisms that have come to shield the elite from accountability. He shows how the media, both political parties, and the courts have abetted a process that has produced torture, war crimes, domestic spying, and financial fraud."
Why this is liberal/progressive: Greenwald is one of the most consistently thorough and cogent critics of the Obama administration from the progressive side of the political spectrum. Greenwald's commitment to civil liberties and intellectual freedom has proven to be non-partisan. He demonstrates, almost on a daily basis, that when it comes to rolling back our constitutional liberties, Obama is just as bad as, if not worse than, George W. Bush.
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