The U.S. Supreme Court is the quintessential example of a court that expanded its agenda into policy areas that were once reserved for legislatures. Yet scholars know very little about what causes attention to various policy areas to ebb and flow on the Supreme Court's agenda. V…
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A comprehensive examination of the rulings, key figures, and legal legacy of the Stone Court. * Analyzes all of the important decisions that made up the Stone Court's "revolution"--particularly those that redefined the federal government's authority to regulate the economy and s…
The Stone Court Played a vital role in the history of the Great Depression, World War II, and Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency. The Court also provided a bridge to the new civil liberties jurisprudence of the Warren Court. "The Stone Court" is devoted to this period in the Sup…
"The Supreme Court's decision in the health care case, NFIB v. Sibelius, gripped the nation's attention during the spring of 2012. No one could have predicted the strange coalition of justices and arguments that would eventually lead the Court to uphold the Affordable Care Act's…
A Year in the Life of the Supreme Court
by Savage, David, Epstein, Aaron, Mauro, Tony, Wermiel, Stephen, Aaron Epstein, Barrett, Paul, David Savage, Denniston, Lyle, Kay Kindred, Kindred, Kay, Lyle, Denniston, Marcia, Coyle, Paul, Barrett, Richard, Carelli, Rodney A. Smolla, Stephen Wermiel, Tony Mauro
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Despite its importance to the life of the nation and all its citizens, the Supreme Court remains a mystery to most Americans, its workings widely felt but rarely seen firsthand. In this book, journalists who cover the Court--acting as the eyes and ears of not just the American p…
Himself a Lumbee Indian and political scientist, David E. Wilkins charts the "fall in our democratic faith" through fifteen landmark cases in which the Supreme Court significantly curtailed Indian rights. These case studies--and their implications for all minority groups--are im…
"In this original, far-reaching and timely book, Justice Stephen Breyer examines the work of SCOTUS in an increasingly interconnected world, a world in which all sorts of public and private activity--from the conduct of national security policy to the conduct of international tr…
