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The Nine
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Jeffrey Toobin |
Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the most important--and secret--legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people wh… |
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Friends of the Supreme Court
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Collins, Paul M. Jr. |
Paul Collins explores how organised interests influence the justices' decision making, including how the justices vote and whether they choose to author concurrences and dissents. |
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Dred Scott and the dangers of a political court
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Ethan Greenberg |
The Dred Scott decision of 1857 is widely (and correctly) regarded as the very worst in the long history of the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision held that no African American could ever be a U.S. cit… |
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You are the Supreme Court justice
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Nathan Aaseng |
Presents eight significant Supreme Court cases, allowing readers to decide the ruling for each situation, and then describes the actual decisions and their results for each case |
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Supreme power
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Jeff Shesol |
In the years before World War II, Franklin Roosevelt's fiercest, most unyielding opponent was neither a foreign power nor "fear itself." It was the U.S. Supreme Court. Beginning in 1935, in a series … |
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The nature of Supreme Court power
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Matthew E. K. Hall,Matthew Eric Kane Hall |
"This book offers a comprehensive theory of Supreme Court power, identifying conditions under which the Court is successful at altering the behavior of state and private actors. Matthew E.K. Hall dep… |
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Supreme conflict
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Jan Crawford Greenburg |
Drawing on unprecedented acc ess to the Supreme Court justices themselves and their inner circles, acclaimed ABC News legal correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg offers an explosive newsbreaking accou… |
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Taking sides
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Rose, William,William Rose,M. Ethan Katsh |
This volume is a debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in the law. The readings, which represent the arguments of leading legal scholars, judges, and legal commentato… |
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Packing the Court
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James Macgregor Burns |
This is a critique of how an unstable, unaccountable, and frequently partisan Supreme Court has come to wield more power than the founding fathers ever intended. In this book the author turns his eye… |
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Courting Disaster
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Martin Garbus |
"Martin Garbus, one of the country's most celebrated trial lawyers and First Amendment attorneys, has been watching the Court closely for decades, and in Courting Disaster, he argues that it's time t… |
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What Kind of Nation
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James F. Simon |
"What Kind of Nation is an account of the bitter and protracted struggle between two titans of the early republic over the power of the presidency and the independence of the judiciary. The clash bet… |
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Law's allure
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Gordon Silverstein |
Judicial and political power are inextricably linked in America, but by the time John Roberts and Samuel Alito joined the Supreme Court, that link seemed more important, more significant, and more pe… |
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Martin Luther King, Jr
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Della Rowland |
A biography of the Nobel Peace Prize winner who showed us that a struggle can be waged without violence. |
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The New Judiciary
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Kate Malleson |
x, 247 p. ; 23 cm |
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Reshaping the Supreme Court
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Anne B. Rierden |
Discusses the evolution of the Supreme Court's role and its impact in politics and society, examines important decisions of the Burger and Warren courts, and looks at new justices and issues facing t… |
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Popular justice
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Jeff Yates |
"Popular Justice explores the interaction between the presidency and the United States Supreme Court in the modern era. It assesses the fortunes of chief executives before the Court and makes the pro… |
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Earl Warren, the judge who changed America
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Jack Harrison Pollack |
When President Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he thought he had nominated a "safe," moderate conservative who wouldn't make waves. Yet, in less than a year's tim… |
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Closed chambers
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Edward Lazarus |
"Operating within a Network of Byzantine Secrecy, The United States Supreme Court is the most powerful judicial institution in the world. Nine unelected justices are charged with protecting our most … |
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A Strike like No Other Strike
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Richard A., Jr. Brisbin |
"In A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law and Resistance during the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989-1990, Richard Brisbin offers a compelling study of the exercise of political power. In considering the le… |
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One Supreme Court
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James E. Pfander |
In offering a general account of the Court as department head, Pfander takes up such important debates in the federal courts' literature as Congress's power to strip the federal courts of jurisdictio… |
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