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Answering the Call of the Court Constitutionalism and Democracy gregg ivers and kevin t. mcguire, editors Answering HOW JUSTICES AND LITIGANTS the Call of SET THE SUPREME the Court COURT AGENDA Vanessa A. Baird UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS CHARLOTTESVILLE AND LONDON University ofVirginia Press © 2007 by the Rector and Visitors ofthe University ofVirginia All rights reserved Printed in the United States ofAmerica on acid-free paper First published 2007 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Baird, Vanessa A., 1970– Answering the call ofthe court : how justices and litigants set the Supreme Court agenda / Vanessa A. Baird. p. cm. — (Constitutionalism and democracy) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn-13: 978-0-8139-2582-0 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. United States. Supreme Court. 2. Judicial process—United States. 3. Political questions and judicial power—United States. I. Title. kf8742.b295 2006 347.73'26—dc22 2006020915 To Mary, Eda, Winifred, and Lisa This page intentionally left blank The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. HENRY DAVID THOREAU, MARCH 30, 1851 This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 The Supreme Court in the U.S. Legal System: Appeals and Case Selection 17 2 Explaining the Supreme Court’s Policy Cycles 33 3 Immigrants’ Rights, Welfare, and Federalism 73 4 Cyclical Patterns on the Supreme Court’s Agenda 83 5 Corroborative Analyses: The Political and Legal Context ofthe Supreme Court 121 6 The Impact ofModerate Justices’ Preferences on the Ideological Placement ofFuture Cases 147 Conclusions 175 Notes 187 References 201 Index 219
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