The Supreme Court

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Updated December 18, 2025
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The Supreme Court compendium : two centuries of data, decisions, and developments
Epstein, Lee
Paper Book
The Supreme Court Compendium provides historical and statistical information on the Supreme Court: its institutional development; caseload; decision trends; the background, nomination, and voting behavior of its justices; its relationship with public, governmental, and other judicial...
Making the Supreme Court : the politics of appointments, 1930-2020
Cameron, Charles M.
Paper Book
Appointments to the United States Supreme Court are now central events in American political life. Every vacancy unleashes a bitter struggle between Republicans and Democrats over nominees; and once the seat is filled, new justices typically vote in predictable ways. However, this has not always...
The Supreme Court
Rehnquist, William H.
Paper Book
Fifteen years after he became the first sitting Chief Justice to write a book about the United States Supreme Court, William H. Rehnquist has added new chapters and substantially revised his classic work. The Supreme Courtbegins with the personal story of William Rehnquist's...
The Oxford guide to United States Supreme Court decisions
Hall, Kermit L.
Paper Book
The Supreme Court has been the site of some of the great debates of American history, from child labor and prayer in the schools, to busing and abortion. The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions offers lively and insightful accounts of the most important cases ever argued before the...
A people's history of the Supreme Court : the men and women whose cases and decisions have shaped our Constitution
Irons, Peter H.
Paper Book
A comprehensive history of the people and cases that have changed history, this is the definitive account of the nation's highest court featuring a forward by Howard Zinn Recent changes in the Supreme Court have placed the venerable institution at the forefront of current affairs...
Ideology in the Supreme Court
Baum, Lawrence
Paper Book
Ideology in the Supreme Court is the first book to analyze the process by which the ideological stances of U.S. Supreme Court justices translate into the positions they take on the issues that the Court addresses. Eminent Supreme Court scholar Lawrence Baum argues that the links between...
The Supreme Court in the intimate lives of Americans : birth, sex, marriage, childrearing, and death
Ball, Howard
Paper Book
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003 Personal rights, such as the right to procreate--or not--and the right to die generate endless debate. This book maps out the legal, political, and ethical issues swirling around personal rights. Howard Ball shows how the Supreme Court has...
From Jim Crow to civil rights : the Supreme Court and the struggle for racial equality
Klarman, Michael J.
Paper Book
A monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court Justices operate and the consequences of their decisions for American race relations. In a highly...
Storm center : the Supreme Court in American politics
O'Brien, David M.
Paper Book
In this engaging and illuminating narrative of the Supreme Court, David M. O'Brien shows students how the Court is a "storm center" of political controversy, where personality, politics, law, and justice come together to help determine the course of public policy and shape the society in which we...
The U.S. Supreme Court : a very short introduction
Greenhouse, Linda
Paper Book
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringFor 30 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse chronicled the activities of the U.S. Supreme Court and its justices as a correspondent for the New York Times. In this Very Short Introduction, she draws on her deep knowledge of...

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