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The U.S. Supreme Court : a very short introduction / Linda Greenhouse.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Greenhouse, Linda, author.
Series:
Very short introductions.
Very short introductions
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
United States. Supreme Court.
United States.
United States. Supreme Court--History.
Physical Description:
1 online resource : illustrations.
Edition:
Third edition.
Place of Publication:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Summary:
For 30 years, Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, chronicled the activities of the justices as the Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times. In this concise volume, she draws on her deep knowledge of the court's history as well as of its written and unwritten rules to show the reader how the Supreme Court really works.
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.
Notes:
This edition also issued in print: 2023.
Previous edition: 2020.
Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 15, 2023).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-768949-3
OCLC:
1378726608

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