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Title:
The Supreme Court.
Publication Information:
Amenia, NY : H.W. Wilson ; Published by Grey House Publishing, [2015]

©2015
Call Number:
KF8742 .S86 2015
Abstract:
"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 principles and philosophies that govern their thinking -- and how their opinions, concurrences, and dissents not only apply constitutional law but shape it."--Preface.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781619256903
Series:
The reference shelf ; volume 87, number 1

Reference shelf ; v. 87, no. 1.
Physical Description:
xiv, 193 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
General Note:
"Edition statement supplied by publisher."--Verso of title page.
Contents:
Benched: the Supreme Court and the struggle for judicial independence / The Court and its workings : principles and practice -- The Constitution of the United States: Article III -- The Federalist, no.78: the Judiciary Department / May I suggest a few revisions? / 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? / Three recently accepted cases shed light on the Supreme Court's process for granting review / Why did Supreme Court punt on same-sex cases? / Who's getting the work at the Supreme Court? / A Supreme Court without Stare Decisis / Supreme Court of the United States: information about opinions -- Writing their wrongs: Supreme Court justices regularly seek to change the errors of their ways / The justices, their papers, and the claims of history / The Justices : Traditional reserve, contemporary demystification -- John Roberts, chief conservative strategist / The devastating, sneaky genius of John Roberts' opinions / How not to misunderstand Scalia / What is Clarence Thomas thinking? / Ruth Bader Ginsberg's retirement dissent / Active liberty lives! / How Sonia Sotomayor became the Supreme Court's preeminent defender of civil liberties / Court sense / Breyer and Scalia debate the role of established practice in constitutional interpretation / Time to fix, or scrap, the confirmation hearings / Yale, Harvard, Yale, Harvard, Yale, Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, Columbia: the thing that scares me most about the Supreme Court / How judges think: a conversation with Judge Richard Posner / Politics and the Court : The Supreme Court and the political landscape -- Can the Supreme Court be rescued from politics? / Politicizing the Supreme Court / By any means necessary / Americans divided on how the Supreme Court should interpret the Constitution / Fault lines re-emerge in Supreme Court at end of term / Rare unanimity in Supreme Court term, with plenty of fireworks / Split definitive / Major decisions : The Supreme Court's major decisions in historical perspective -- Precedent and prologue / 2014 election confirms Citizens United decision based on fundamentally flawed premises / Obama wins the battle, Roberts wins the war / Supreme Court's silence on marriage rights speaks volumes / Why the Supreme Court may finally protect your privacy in the cloud / Dawn patrol / Supreme Court deals major blow to patent trolls / The trap in the Supreme Court's "narrow" decisions / Without actually issuing opinions, SCOTUS has already decided a lot / How the justices move the law / Public perceptions of the Court : judging the bench -- Why the Supreme Court needs term limits / Cameras and the courtroom dynamic / At Supreme Court, secretiveness attracts snoops / A modest proposal / The Supreme Court's baffling tech illiteracy is becoming a problem / The Supreme Court: the last bastion of American leadership? / The Supreme Court's ultimate test / The Supreme Court steps: an architectural dissent
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