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Greenhouse, Linda.
Subjects
United States. Supreme Court -- History.
United States. Supreme Court.
Judicial review -- United States -- History.
Judicial review -- United States.
Judicial process -- United States.
Political questions and judicial power -- United States.
Judges -- United States -- Biography
Judges -- United States -- History.
Law -- Political aspects.
Separation of powers -- United States.
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Greenhouse, Linda.
United States. Supreme Court -- History.
United States. Supreme Court.
Judicial review -- United States -- History.
Judicial review -- United States.
Judicial process -- United States.
Political questions and judicial power -- United States.
Judges -- United States -- Biography
Judges -- United States -- History.
Law -- Political aspects.
Separation of powers -- United States.
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The U.S. Supreme Court : a very short introduction / Linda Greenhouse.
by
Greenhouse, Linda.
Oxford University Press, c2012.
Call #:
347.7326 G813u
Subjects
United
States
. Supreme Court
--
History.
United
States
. Supreme Court.
Judicial
review
--
United
States
--
History.
Judicial
review
--
United
States
.
Judicial
process
--
United
States
.
Political questions and
judicial
power
--
United
States
.
Judges
--
United
States
--
Biography
Judges
--
United
States
--
History.
Law
--
Political aspects.
Separation of powers
--
United
States
.
Series
Very short introductions ; 306.
ISBN:
9780199754540 (pbk.)
0199754543 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
United
States
Supreme Court, a very short introduction.
Description:
126 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references, Internet website resources, (p. 103-117) and index.
Contents:
Origins
--
The court at work (1)
--
The justices
--
The chief justice
--
The court at work (2)
--
The court and the other branches
--
The court and the public
--
The court and the world
--
U.S. Constitution, Article III
--
The Supreme Court's rules
--
Chart of the justices.
Summary:
For 30 years, the author, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist chronicled the activities of the U.S. Supreme Court and its justices as a correspondent for the New York Times. In this introduction, she draws on her knowledge of the court's history and of its written and unwritten rules to show how the Supreme Court really works. She offers an institutional biography of a place and its people, men and women who exercise great power but whose names and faces are unrecognized by many Americans and whose work often appears cloaked in mystery. How do cases get to the Supreme Court? How do the justices go about deciding them? What special role does the chief justice play? What do the law clerks do? How does the court relate to the other branches of government? The author answers these questions by depicting the justices as they confront deep constitutional issues or wrestle with the meaning of confusing federal statutes. Throughout, the author examines many individual Supreme Court cases to illustrate points under discussion, ranging from Marbury v. Madison, the seminal case which established
judicial
review
, to the recent District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), which struck down the District of Columbia's gun-control statute and which was, surprisingly, the first time in its history that the Court issued an authoritative interpretation of the Second Amendment. To add perspective, she also compares the Court to foreign courts, revealing interesting differences. For instance, no other country in the world has chosen to bestow life tenure on its judges.
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