caa a22 4500 386392382 CHVBK 20180307112123.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1051192 doi S0748081400005294 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1051192 Paulsen Michael Stokes Accusing Justice: Some Variations on the Themes of Robert M. Cover's Justice Accused [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Stokes Paulsen] In 1968, a young Robert Cover wrote what he later called a "short polemic” against judicial complicity in the Vietnam War. "Polemic” is something of an understatement. Cover's short book review of an 1856 abolitionist broadside directed against judicial enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act became the occasion for a powerful general indictment of morally blind "obedience to, let alone enforcement of, law which violates all that is worthwhile in human community”. Drawing on the memory of the Holocaust and "the screaming silence of the German people,” Cover excoriated the federal judiciary for "re-main[ing] faithful to its long tradition as executors of immoral law,” in relation to enforcement of the draft laws in the Vietnam War era: No judge has resigned in protest. No judge has availed himself of the opportunity presented by a draft case to instruct the public on the moral issues of the war. No judge has publicly engaged in creative judicial obstruction of the war effort. Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 1989 Journal of Law and Religion Cambridge University Press 7/1(1989), 33-97 0748-0814 7:1<33 1989 7 JLR https://doi.org/10.2307/1051192 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1051192 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Paulsen Michael Stokes NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Law and Religion Cambridge University Press 7/1(1989), 33-97 0748-0814 7:1<33 1989 7 JLR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge