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Storm center : the Supreme Court in American politics / David M. O'Brien.
LIBRA KF8742 .O27 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Brien, David M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Supreme Court.
- United States.
- Political questions and judicial power--United States.
- Political questions and judicial power.
- Judicial process--United States.
- Judicial process.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 458 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Eighth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2008]
- Summary:
- The Supreme Court is a fundamentally political branch of the U.S. government that is deeply engaged in shaping American politics and policy. David O'Brien shows students how the Supreme Court is a "storm center" of political controversy where personality, politics, law, and justice converge. This thoroughly updated eighth edition of Storm Center continues to chart historic steps taken by the Court, and features an in-depth discussion of the Court's continuing turn to the right and the first terms of Chief Justice John Roberts.
- Contents:
- A struggle for power
- The cult of the robe
- Life in the marble temple
- Deciding what to decide
- Deciding cases and writing opinions
- The court and American life.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-421) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393932188
- 0393932184
- OCLC:
- 199459028
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