Week of June 1, 2009
News Item: President Barack Obama recently nominated Sonia Sotomayor to replace Justice David H. Souter who is retiring in June from the Supreme Court. If approved by the Senate, Sotomayor will become the third woman and only the first Latina to serve on the nation’s highest court. Sotomayor, a self-described Nuyorican, is a 1979 graduate of Yale Law School and currently serves as a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judge.
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Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court
By Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price. Basic Books, 2001
Call Number: HQ76.8 .U5 M97 2001
Developments in the National Security Policy of the United States Since 9/11: The Separate Roles of the President, the Congress, and the Supreme Court
By Leonard Cutler. Edwin Mellen Press, 2008
Call Number: KF4850 .C88 2008
The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom
By Robert A. Levy and William H. Mellor. Sentinel, 2008
Call Number: KF8742 .L485 2008 (At Jupiter)
Feminist Activism in the Supreme Court: Legal Mobilization and the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund
By Christopher P. Manfredi. UBC Press, 2004
Call Number: KE4410 .M36 2004
Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States
By Henry J. Abraham and Barbara A. Perry. University Press of Kansas, 2003
Call Number: KF4749 .A73 2003
Implementing the Constitution
By Richard H. Fallon, Jr. Harvard University Press, 2001
Call Number: KF8742 .F35 2001
Individual Rights and Liberties Under the U.S. Constitution: The Case Law of the U.S. Supreme Court
By Ioannis G. Dimitrakopoulos. Martinus Nijhoff, 2007
Call Number: KF4748 .D465 2007
Interstate Disputes: The Supreme Court’s Original Jurisdiction
By Joseph F. Zimmerman. State University of New York, 2006
Call Number: KF4615 .Z56 2006 (Also available via NetLibrary)
Judging Thomas: The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas
By Ken Foskett. Morrow, 2004
Call Number: KF8745 .T48 F67 2004
Justice Thurgood Marshall: Crusader for Liberalism: His Judicial Biography, 1908-1993
By Randall Walton Bland. Academica Press, 2001
Call Number: KF8745 .M34 B547 2001
Laboratory of Justice: The Supreme Court’s 200-Year Struggle to Integrate Science and the Law
By David L. Faigman. Times Books/Henry Holt, 2004
Call Number: KF8748 .F27 2004
Landmark Supreme Court Cases: The Most Influential Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States
By Gary Hartman et al. Facts on File, 2004
Call Number: KF8742 .H37 2004
The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice
By Sandra Day O’Connor. Random House, 2003
Call Number: KF8742 .O274 2003
The Myth of Judicial Activism: Making Sense of Supreme Court Decisions
By Kermit Roosevelt III. Yale University Press, 2006
Call Number: KF8742 .R65 2006
The Next 25 Years: The New Supreme Court and What It Means for Americans
By Martin Garbus. Seven Stories Press, 2007
Call Number: KF8742 .G375 2007
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
By Jeffrey Toobin. Doubleday, 2007
Call Number: KF8748 .T66 2007
Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court vs. the American People
By Jamin B. Raskin. Routledge, 2003
Call Number: KF8748 .F33 2003
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
Edited by Kermit H. Hall et al. Oxford University Press, 2006
Call Number: KF8742 .A35 O93 2005
Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, The Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History
By Keith E. Whittington. Princeton University Press, 2007
Call Number: KF8748 .W48 2007
The Psychology of the Supreme Court
By Lawrence S. Wrightsman. Oxford University Press, 2006
Call Number: KF8748 .W753 2006
Sandra Day O’Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice
By Joan Biskupic. ECCO, 2005
Call Number: KF8745 .O25 2005
Strategic Behavior and Policy Choice on the U.S. Supreme Court
By Thomas H. Hammond et al. Stanford University Press, 2005
Call Number: KF8742 .H36 2005
The Supreme Court
By William Rehnquist. Knopf, 2001
Call Number: KF8742 .R47 2001
The Supreme Court (DVD)
Volume 1 – One Nation Under Law
Volume 2 – A New Kind of Justice
Volume 3 – A Nation of Liberties
Volume 4 – The Rehnquist Revolution
A HiddenHill production for Thirteen/WNET New York. Distributed by Ambrose Video Pub., 2007
Call Numbers: volume 1 (KF8742 .A45 S8722 2007), volume 2 (KF8742 .A45 S8723 2007), volume 3 (KF8742 .A45 S8724 2007), volume 4 (KF8742 .A45 S8725 2007) (In Boca Raton Media Center and at Jupiter)
The Supreme Court and Election Law: Judging Equality from Baker v. Carr to Bush v. Gore
By Richard L. Hasen. New York University Press, 2003
Call Number: KF4886 .H37 2003 (Also available via NetLibrary)
Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas
By Kevin Merida and Michael A. Fletcher. Doubleday, 2007
Call Number: KF8745 .T48 M47 2007
The Supreme Court in Conference (1940-1985): The Private Discussions Behind Nearly 300 Supreme Court Decisions
Edited by Del Dickson. Oxford University Press, 2001
Call Number: KF8742 .S917 2001 (In Boca Raton Reference Department. Non-Circulating)
The U.S. Supreme Court and the Electoral Process
Edited by David K. Ryden. Georgetown University Press, 2002
Call Number: KF4886 .A5 U17 2002
The U.S. Supreme Court and Medical Ethics: From Contraception to Managed Health Care
By Bryan Hilliard. Paragon House, 2004
Call Number: KF3821 .H55 2004
The Supreme Court Phalanx: The Court’s New Right-Wing Bloc
By Ronald Dworkin. New York Review Books, 2008
Call Number: KF8748 .D88 2008 (At Jupiter)