The Supreme Court.
"This book explores the Supreme Court from a variety of perspectives, beginning with how the court does its work and proceeding to look at the current court: the individual justices, their complex interactions with and influences on their colleagues, their jurisprudence -- that is, the principl...
| Format: | Book |
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| Language: | English |
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Amenia, NY :
H.W. Wilson : Published by Grey House Publishing,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Reference shelf ;
v. 87, no. 1. |
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Table of Contents:
- Benched: the Supreme Court and the struggle for judicial independence / Jill Lepore
- Pt. I, The Court and its workings : principles and practice
- The Constitution of the United States: Article III
- The Federalist, no.78: the Judiciary Department / Publius [Alexander Hamilton]
- May I suggest a few revisions? / Forrest Wickman
- Supreme Court of the United States: Rule 10 Considerations governing review of Writ of Certiorari
- Why did the Court grant Cert in King v. Burwell? / Jonathan Adler
- Three recently accepted cases shed light on the Supreme Court's process for granting review / Vikram David Amar
- Why did Supreme Court punt on same-sex cases? / Tony Mauro
- Who's getting the work at the Supreme Court? / Tony Mauro
- A Supreme Court without Stare Decisis / Orin Kerr
- Supreme Court of the United States: information about opinions
- Writing their wrongs: Supreme Court justices regularly seek to change the errors of their ways / Mark Walsh
- The justices, their papers, and the claims of history / Christopher Schmidt
- Pt. II, The Justices : Traditional reserve, contemporary demystification
- John Roberts, chief conservative strategist / Paul M. Barrett
- The devastating, sneaky genius of John Roberts' opinions / Emily Bazelon
- How not to misunderstand Scalia / Cass R. Sunstein
- What is Clarence Thomas thinking? / Garrett Epps
- Ruth Bader Ginsberg's retirement dissent / Amy Davidson
- Active liberty lives! / Adam Winkler
- How Sonia Sotomayor became the Supreme Court's preeminent defender of civil liberties / Scott Lemieux
- Court sense / Colleen Walsh
- Breyer and Scalia debate the role of established practice in constitutional interpretation / Christopher Schmidt
- Time to fix, or scrap, the confirmation hearings / Andrew Cohen
- Yale, Harvard, Yale, Harvard, Yale, Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, Columbia: the thing that scares me most about the Supreme Court / Dahlia Lithwick
- How judges think: a conversation with Judge Richard Posner / Jonathan Masur
- Pt. III, Politics and the Court : The Supreme Court and the political landscape
- Can the Supreme Court be rescued from politics? / Scott Lemieux
- Politicizing the Supreme Court / Eric Hamilton
- By any means necessary / Linda Greenhouse
- Americans divided on how the Supreme Court should interpret the Constitution / Jocelyn Kiley
- Fault lines re-emerge in Supreme Court at end of term / Joan Biskupic
- Rare unanimity in Supreme Court term, with plenty of fireworks / Nina Totenberg
- Split definitive / Lawrence Baum and Neal Devins
- Pt. IV, Major decisions : The Supreme Court's major decisions in historical perspective
- Precedent and prologue / Jeffrey Toobin
- 2014 election confirms Citizens United decision based on fundamentally flawed premises / Fred Wertheimer
- Obama wins the battle, Roberts wins the war / Tom Scocca
- Supreme Court's silence on marriage rights speaks volumes / Marcia Coyle
- Why the Supreme Court may finally protect your privacy in the cloud / Andy Greenberg
- Dawn patrol / Richard L. Hasen
- Supreme Court deals major blow to patent trolls / Klint Finley
- The trap in the Supreme Court's "narrow" decisions / Jeffrey Toobin
- Without actually issuing opinions, SCOTUS has already decided a lot / Erwin Chemerinsky
- How the justices move the law / Richard L. Hasen
- Pt. V, Public perceptions of the Court : judging the bench
- Why the Supreme Court needs term limits / Norm Ornstein
- Cameras and the courtroom dynamic / Nancy Marder
- At Supreme Court, secretiveness attracts snoops / Richard Wolf
- A modest proposal / Christopher Schmidt
- The Supreme Court's baffling tech illiteracy is becoming a problem / Selina MacLaren
- The Supreme Court: the last bastion of American leadership? / Matt K. Lewis
- The Supreme Court's ultimate test / Laurence H. Tribe
- The Supreme Court steps: an architectural dissent / Paul Goldberger.