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Author Burns, James MacGregor.

Title Packing the court : the rise of judicial power and the coming crisis of the Supreme Court / James MacGregor Burns
Published New York : The Penguin Press, 2009

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Description 326 pages ; 24 cm
Contents The first courtpackers -- John Marshall's Constitution -- The Dred decision -- War powers: Lincoln vs. Taney -- Deconstruction: Republican reversal -- A court for the gilded age -- The triumphant Mr. Taft -- FDR's boldest gamble -- "Wild horses" : the Roosevelt court -- Leadership: the Warren court -- Republicans as activists -- Hard right: the Cheney-Bush court -- Ending judicial supremacy -- The justices of the Supreme Court
Summary From renowned political theorist and Pulitzer Prize winner James MacGregor Burns, an illuminating critique of how an unstable, unaccountable, and frequently partisan Supreme Court has come to wield more power than the founding fathers ever intended
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [270]-312) and index
Subject United States. Supreme Court -- History.
Political questions and judicial power -- United States.
Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States.
LC no. 2009003987
ISBN 9781594202193
1594202192