Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring For 30 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse chronicled the activities of the U.
S.
A superb overview packed with telling details, this volume offers a matchless Introduction to one of the pillars of American government..
The third edition of Greenhouse\'s Very Short Introduction tracks the changes in the Court\'s makeup over the past decade, including the landmark decisions of the Obama and Trump eras and the emergence of a conservative supermajority.
For instance, no other country in the world has chosen to bestow life tenure on its judges.
To add perspective, Greenhouse also compares the Court to foreign courts, revealing interesting differences.
Wade (1973).
Jackson Women\'s Health Organization (2022), which repudiated the right to abortion the Court had recognized nearly fifty years earlier in Roe 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; and Dobbs v.
Madison , the seminal case which established judicial review
District of Columbia v.
Throughout, the author examines many individual Supreme Court cases to illustrate points under discussion, including Marbury v.
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? Greenhouse answers these questions by depicting the justices as they confront deep constitutional issues or wrestle with the meaning of confusing federal statutes.
Greenhouse offers a fascinating 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.
In this Very Short Introduction , she draws on her deep knowledge of the court\'s history and of its written and unwritten rules to show readers how the Supreme Court really works.
Supreme Court and its justices as a correspondent for the New York Times .
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring For 30 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse chronicled the activities of the U.
S
