The Supreme Court is a fundamentally political branch of the U.S. government that is deeply engaged in shaping American politics and policy.

A definitive history of the U.S. Supreme Court details the evolution of the legal institution from the early days of the American Republic to the present day, offering profiles ...

Totally revised and updated, this classic history of the 108 members of the U.S. Supreme addresses the vital questions of why individual justices were nominated to the highest ...

The Choices Justices Make argues convincingly that Supreme Court justices are policy-makers who strategically select courses of action by weighing not only their own ...

Judging the Supreme Court: Constructions of Motives in Bush v. Gore examines how the U.S. Supreme Court, its defenders, and its critics explained what the majority justices ...

Examines the irreconcilable demands of American contradicting political mythology and how this dynamic is played out in the arena of constitutional law and the US Supreme Court ...