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T he U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject. They are written by experts and have been published in more than 25 languages worldwide. The series began in 1995 and now represents a wide variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities.The VSI library now contains more than 300 volumes—a Very Short Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to conceptual art and cosmology—and will continue to grow in a variety of disciplines. V ery Short Introductions available now: ADVERTISING W inston Fletcher ART THEORY C ynthia Freeland AFRICAN HISTORY J ohn Parker and ATHEISM J ulian Baggini Richard Rathbone AUGUSTINE H enry Chadwick AGNOSTICISM R obin Le Poidevin AUTISM U ta Frith AMERICAN IMMIGRATION THE AZTECS DavídCarrasco David A. Gerber BARTHES J onathan Culler AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES BEAUTY R oger Scruton AND ELECTIONS L . Sandy Maisel BESTSELLERS J ohn Sutherland THE AMERICAN THE BIBLE J ohn Riches PRESIDENCY C harles O. Jones BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY ANARCHISM C olin Ward Eric H. Cline ANCIENT EGYPT I an Shaw BIOGRAPHY H ermione Lee ANCIENT GREECE P aul Cartledge THE BLUES E lijah Wald ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY J ulia Annas THE BOOK OF MORMON ANCIENT WARFARE Terryl Givens Harry Sidebottom THE BRAIN M ichael O’Shea ANGELS D avid Albert Jones BRITISH POLITICS A nthony Wright ANGLICANISM M ark Chapman BUDDHA M ichael Carrithers - THE ANGLO SAXON AGE BUDDHISM D amien Keown J ohn Blair BUDDHIST ETHICS D amien Keown THE ANIMAL KINGDOM CANCER N icholas James Peter Holland CAPITALISM J ames Fulcher ANIMAL RIGHTS D avid DeGrazia CATHOLICISM G erald O’Collins ANTISEMITISM S teven Beller THE CELL T erence Allen and THE APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS Graham Cowling Paul Foster THE CELTS B arry Cunliffe ARCHAEOLOGY P aul Bahn CHAOS L eonard Smith ARCHITECTURE A ndrew Ballantyne CHILDREN’S LITERATURE ARISTOCRACY W illiam Doyle Kimberley Reynolds ARISTOTLE J onathan Barnes CHINESE LITERATURE S abina Knight ART HISTORY D ana Arnold CHOICE THEORY M ichael Allingham CHRISTIAN ART B eth Williamson DREAMING J . Allan Hobson CHRISTIAN ETHICS D . Stephen Long DRUGS L eslie Iversen CHRISTIANITY L inda Woodhead DRUIDS B arry Cunliffe CITIZENSHIP R ichard Bellamy EARLY MUSIC T homas Forrest Kelly CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY THE EARTH M artin Redfern Helen Morales ECONOMICS P artha Dasgupta CLASSICS M ary Beard and John Henderson EGYPTIAN MYTH G eraldine Pinch - CLAUSEWITZ M ichael Howard EIGHTEENTH CENTURY THE COLD WAR R obert McMahon BRITAIN P aul Langford COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN THE ELEMENTS P hilip Ball LITERATURE R olena Adorno EMOTION D ylan Evans COMMUNISM L eslie Holmes EMPIRE S tephen Howe THE COMPUTER D arrel Ince ENGELS T errell Carver THE CONQUISTADORS ENGLISH LITERATURE J onathan Bate M atthew Restall and ENVIRONMENTAL Felipe Fernández-Armesto ECONOMICS S tephen Smith CONSCIENCE P aul Strohm EPIDEMIOLOGY R odolfo Saracci CONSCIOUSNESS S usan Blackmore ETHICS S imon Blackburn CONTEMPORARY ART THE EUROPEAN UNION J ohn Pinder J ulian Stallabrass and Simon Usherwood CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY EVOLUTION B rian and Simon Critchley Deborah Charlesworth COSMOLOGY P eter Coles EXISTENTIALISM T homas Flynn CRITICAL THEORY FASCISM K evin Passmore Stephen Eric Bronner FASHION R ebecca Arnold THE CRUSADES C hristopher Tyerman FEMINISM M argaret Walters CRYPTOGRAPHY F red Piper and FILM M ichael Wood Sean Murphy FILM MUSIC K athryn Kalinak THE CULTURAL THE FIRST WORLD WAR REVOLUTION R ichard Curt Kraus Michael Howard DADA AND SURREALISM FOLK MUSIC M ark Slobin David Hopkins FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY DARWIN J onathan Howard David Canter THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS FORENSIC SCIENCE J im Fraser Timothy Lim FOSSILS K eith Thomson DEMOCRACY B ernard Crick FOUCAULT G ary Gutting DERRIDA S imon Glendinning FREE SPEECH N igel Warburton DESCARTES T om Sorell FREE WILL T homas Pink DESERTS N ick Middleton FRENCH LITERATURE J ohn D. Lyons DESIGN J ohn Heskett THE FRENCH REVOLUTION DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY William Doyle Lewis Wolpert FREUD A nthony Storr DICTIONARIES L ynda Mugglestone FUNDAMENTALISM M alise Ruthven DINOSAURS D avid Norman GALAXIES J ohn Gribbin DIPLOMACY J oseph M. Siracusa GALILEO S tillman Drake DOCUMENTARY FILM GAME THEORY K en Binmore Patricia Aufderheide GANDHI B hikhu Parekh GENIUS A ndrew Robinson INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHY J ohn Matthews and MIGRATION K halid Koser David Herbert INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS GEOPOLITICS K laus Dodds Paul Wilkinson GERMAN LITERATURE ISLAM M alise Ruthven Nicholas Boyle ISLAMIC HISTORY A dam Silverstein GERMAN PHILOSOPHY ITALIAN LITERATURE Andrew Bowie P eter Hainsworth and David Robey GLOBAL CATASTROPHES JESUS R ichard Bauckham Bill McGuire JOURNALISM I an Hargreaves GLOBAL ECONOMIC JUDAISM N orman Solomon HISTORY R obert C. Allen JUNG A nthony Stevens GLOBAL WARMING M ark Maslin KABBALAH J oseph Dan GLOBALIZATION M anfred Steger KAFKA R itchie Robertson THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE KANT R oger Scruton NEW DEAL E ric Rauchway KEYNES R obert Skidelsky HABERMAS J ames Gordon Finlayson KIERKEGAARD P atrick Gardiner HEGEL P eter Singer THE KORAN M ichael Cook HEIDEGGER M ichael Inwood LANDSCAPES AND HERODOTUS J ennifer T. Roberts GEOMORPHOLOGY HIEROGLYPHS P enelope Wilson Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles HINDUISM K im Knott LATE ANTIQUITY G illian Clark HISTORY J ohn H. Arnold LAW R aymond Wacks THE HISTORY OF THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS ASTRONOMY M ichael Hoskin Peter Atkins THE HISTORY OF LIFE LEADERSHIP K eith Grint Michael Benton LINCOLN A llen C. Guelzo THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS LINGUISTICS P eter Matthews Jacqueline Stedall LITERARY THEORY J onathan Culler THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE LOCKE J ohn Dunn William Bynum LOGIC G raham Priest THE HISTORY OF TIME MACHIAVELLI Q uentin Skinner - Leofranc Holford S trevens MADNESS A ndrew Scull HIV/AIDS A lan Whiteside MAGIC O wen Davies HOBBES R ichard Tuck THE MARQUIS DE SADE J ohn Phillips HUMAN EVOLUTION B ernard Wood MARTIN LUTHER S cott H. Hendrix HUMAN RIGHTS A ndrew Clapham MARX P eter Singer HUMANISM S tephen Law MATHEMATICS T imothy Gowers HUME A . J. Ayer THE MEANING OF LIFE IDEOLOGY M ichael Freeden Terry Eagleton INDIAN PHILOSOPHY MEDICAL ETHICS T ony Hope Sue Hamilton MEDIEVAL BRITAIN J ohn Gillingham INFORMATION L uciano Floridi and Ralph A. Griffiths INNOVATION M ark Dodgson and MEMORY J onathan K. Foster David Gann MICHAEL FARADAY INTELLIGENCE I an J. Deary Frank A.J.L. James MODERN ART D avid Cottington MODERN CHINA R ana Mitter PAUL E . P. Sanders MODERN FRANCE PENTECOSTALISM W illiam K. Kay Vanessa R. Schwartz THE PERIODIC TABLE E ric R. Scerri MODERN IRELAND S enia Pašeta PHILOSOPHY E dward Craig MODERN JAPAN PHILOSOPHY OF LAW Christopher Goto-Jones Raymond Wacks MODERN LATIN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE LITERATURE Samir Okasha Roberto González Echevarría PHOTOGRAPHY S teve Edwards MODERNISM C hristopher Butler PLANETS D avid A. Rothery MOLECULES P hilip Ball PLATO J ulia Annas MORMONISM POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY D avid Miller Richard Lyman Bushman POLITICS K enneth Minogue MUHAMMAD J onathan A.C. Brown POSTCOLONIALISM R obert Young MULTICULTURALISM A li Rattansi POSTMODERNISM MUSIC N icholas Cook Christopher Butler MYTH R obert A. Segal POSTSTRUCTURALISM NATIONALISM S teven Grosby Catherine Belsey NELSON MANDELA E lleke Boehmer PREHISTORY C hris Gosden NEOLIBERALISM M anfred Steger and PRESOCRATIC Ravi Roy PHILOSOPHY C atherine Osborne THE NEW TESTAMENT PRIVACY R aymond Wacks Luke Timothy Johnson PROGRESSIVISM W alter Nugent THE NEW TESTAMENT AS PROTESTANTISM M ark A. Noll LITERATURE K yle Keefer PSYCHIATRY T om Burns NEWTON R obert Iliffe PSYCHOLOGY G illian Butler and NIETZSCHE M ichael Tanner Freda McManus - NINETEENTH CENTURY PURITANISM F rancis J. Bremer BRITAIN C hristopher Harvie and THE QUAKERS P ink Dandelion H. C. G. Matthew QUANTUM THEORY THE NORMAN CONQUEST John Polkinghorne George Garnett RACISM A li Rattansi NORTH AMERICAN THE REAGAN REVOLUTION INDIANS T heda Perdue and Gil Troy Michael D. Green REALITY J an Westerhoff NORTHERN IRELAND THE REFORMATION P eter Marshall Marc Mulholland RELATIVITY R ussell Stannard NOTHING F rank Close RELIGION IN AMERICA NUCLEAR POWER M axwell Irvine Timothy Beal NUCLEAR WEAPONS THE RENAISSANCE J erry Brotton Joseph M. Siracusa RENAISSANCE ART NUMBERS P eter M. Higgins Geraldine A. Johnson THE OLD TESTAMENT RISK B aruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany M ichael D. Coogan ROMAN BRITAIN P eter Salway ORGANIZATIONS M ary Jo Hatch THE ROMAN EMPIRE PAGANISM O wen Davies Christopher Kelly PARTICLE PHYSICS F rank Close ROMANTICISM M ichael Ferber ROUSSEAU R obert Wokler SPINOZA R oger Scruton RUSSELL A . C. Grayling STATISTICS D avid J. Hand RUSSIAN LITERATURE C atriona Kelly STEM CELLS J onathan Slack THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION STUART BRITAIN J ohn Morrill S. A. Smith SUPERCONDUCTIVITY SCHIZOPHRENIA C hris Frith and Stephen Blundell Eve Johnstone TERRORISM C harles Townshend SCHOPENHAUER THEOLOGY D avid F. Ford Christopher Janaway THOMAS AQUINAS F ergus Kerr SCIENCE AND RELIGION TOCQUEVILLE H arvey C. Mansfield Thomas Dixon TRAGEDY A drian Poole SCIENCE FICTION D avid Seed THE TUDORS J ohn Guy - THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION TWENTIETH CENTURY Lawrence M. Principe BRITAIN K enneth O. Morgan SCOTLAND R ab Houston THE UNITED NATIONS SEXUALITY V éronique Mottier Jussi M. Hanhimäki SHAKESPEARE G ermaine Greer THE U.S. CONGRESS D onald A. Ritchie SIKHISM E leanor Nesbitt THE U.S. SUPREME COURT SLEEP S teven W. Lockley and L inda Greenhouse Russell G. Foster UTOPIANISM L yman Tower Sargent SOCIAL AND CULTURAL THE VIKINGS J ulian Richards ANTHROPOLOGY VIRUSES D orothy H. Crawford John Monaghan and Peter Just WITCHCRAFT M alcolm Gaskill SOCIALISM M ichael Newman WITTGENSTEIN A . C. Grayling SOCIOLOGY S teve Bruce WORLD MUSIC P hilip Bohlman SOCRATES C . C. W. Taylor THE WORLD TRADE THE SOVIET UNION S tephen Lovell ORGANIZATION A mrita Narlikar THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR WRITING AND SCRIPT Helen Graham A ndrew Robinson SPANISH LITERATURE J o Labanyi A vailable soon: Plague P aul Slack Probability J ohn Haigh Russian History Plants T imothy Walker G eoffrey Hosking Engineering D avid Blockley F or more information visit our website w ww.oup.co.uk/general/vsi/ L inda Greenhouse The U.S. Supreme Court A Very Short Introduction 1 Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offi ces in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright © 2012 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press A ll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Greenhouse, Linda. The U.S. Supreme Court : a very short introduction / Linda Greenhouse. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-19-975454-0 (pbk.) 1. United States. Supreme Court. 2. Judicial process—United States. I. Title. II. Title: United States Supreme Court. KF8742.G744 2012 347.73′26—dc23 2011031589 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in Great Britain by Ashford Colour Press Ltd., Gosport, Hants. on acid-free paper For Gene and Hannah

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T he U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject. They are written by experts and have been published in more than 25 languages worldwide. The series began in 1995 and now represents a wide variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities.The VSI library now contains more than 300 volumes—a Very Short Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to conceptual art and cosmology—and will continue to grow in a variety of disciplines. V ery Short Introductions available now: ADVERTISING W inston Fletcher ART THEORY C ynthia Freeland AFRICAN HISTORY J ohn Parker and ATHEISM J ulian Baggini Richard Rathbone AUGUSTINE H enry Chadwick AGNOSTICISM R obin Le Poidevin AUTISM U ta Frith AMERICAN IMMIGRATION THE AZTECS DavídCarrasco David A. Gerber BARTHES J onathan Culler AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES BEAUTY R oger Scruton AND ELECTIONS L . Sandy Maisel BESTSELLERS J ohn Sutherland THE AMERICAN THE BIBLE J ohn Riches PRESIDENCY C harles O. Jones BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY ANARCHISM C olin Ward Eric H. Cline ANCIENT EGYPT I an Shaw BIOGRAPHY H ermione Lee ANCIENT GREECE P aul Cartledge THE BLUES E lijah Wald ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY J ulia Annas THE BOOK OF MORMON ANCIENT WARFARE Terryl Givens Harry Sidebottom THE BRAIN M ichael O’Shea ANGELS D avid Albert Jones BRITISH POLITICS A nthony Wright ANGLICANISM M ark Chapman BUDDHA M ichael Carrithers - THE ANGLO SAXON AGE BUDDHISM D amien Keown J ohn Blair BUDDHIST ETHICS D amien Keown THE ANIMAL KINGDOM CANCER N icholas James Peter Holland CAPITALISM J ames Fulcher ANIMAL RIGHTS D avid DeGrazia CATHOLICISM G erald O’Collins ANTISEMITISM S teven Beller THE CELL T erence Allen and THE APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS Graham Cowling Paul Foster THE CELTS B arry Cunliffe ARCHAEOLOGY P aul Bahn CHAOS L eonard Smith ARCHITECTURE A ndrew Ballantyne CHILDREN’S LITERATURE ARISTOCRACY W illiam Doyle Kimberley Reynolds ARISTOTLE J onathan Barnes CHINESE LITERATURE S abina Knight ART HISTORY D ana Arnold CHOICE THEORY M ichael Allingham CHRISTIAN ART B eth Williamson DREAMING J . Allan Hobson CHRISTIAN ETHICS D . Stephen Long DRUGS L eslie Iversen CHRISTIANITY L inda Woodhead DRUIDS B arry Cunliffe CITIZENSHIP R ichard Bellamy EARLY MUSIC T homas Forrest Kelly CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY THE EARTH M artin Redfern Helen Morales ECONOMICS P artha Dasgupta CLASSICS M ary Beard and John Henderson EGYPTIAN MYTH G eraldine Pinch - CLAUSEWITZ M ichael Howard EIGHTEENTH CENTURY THE COLD WAR R obert McMahon BRITAIN P aul Langford COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN THE ELEMENTS P hilip Ball LITERATURE R olena Adorno EMOTION D ylan Evans COMMUNISM L eslie Holmes EMPIRE S tephen Howe THE COMPUTER D arrel Ince ENGELS T errell Carver THE CONQUISTADORS ENGLISH LITERATURE J onathan Bate M atthew Restall and ENVIRONMENTAL Felipe Fernández-Armesto ECONOMICS S tephen Smith CONSCIENCE P aul Strohm EPIDEMIOLOGY R odolfo Saracci CONSCIOUSNESS S usan Blackmore ETHICS S imon Blackburn CONTEMPORARY ART THE EUROPEAN UNION J ohn Pinder J ulian Stallabrass and Simon Usherwood CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY EVOLUTION B rian and Simon Critchley Deborah Charlesworth COSMOLOGY P eter Coles EXISTENTIALISM T homas Flynn CRITICAL THEORY FASCISM K evin Passmore Stephen Eric Bronner FASHION R ebecca Arnold THE CRUSADES C hristopher Tyerman FEMINISM M argaret Walters CRYPTOGRAPHY F red Piper and FILM M ichael Wood Sean Murphy FILM MUSIC K athryn Kalinak THE CULTURAL THE FIRST WORLD WAR REVOLUTION R ichard Curt Kraus Michael Howard DADA AND SURREALISM FOLK MUSIC M ark Slobin David Hopkins FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY DARWIN J onathan Howard David Canter THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS FORENSIC SCIENCE J im Fraser Timothy Lim FOSSILS K eith Thomson DEMOCRACY B ernard Crick FOUCAULT G ary Gutting DERRIDA S imon Glendinning FREE SPEECH N igel Warburton DESCARTES T om Sorell FREE WILL T homas Pink DESERTS N ick Middleton FRENCH LITERATURE J ohn D. Lyons DESIGN J ohn Heskett THE FRENCH REVOLUTION DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY William Doyle Lewis Wolpert FREUD A nthony Storr DICTIONARIES L ynda Mugglestone FUNDAMENTALISM M alise Ruthven DINOSAURS D avid Norman GALAXIES J ohn Gribbin DIPLOMACY J oseph M. Siracusa GALILEO S tillman Drake DOCUMENTARY FILM GAME THEORY K en Binmore Patricia Aufderheide GANDHI B hikhu Parekh GENIUS A ndrew Robinson INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHY J ohn Matthews and MIGRATION K halid Koser David Herbert INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS GEOPOLITICS K laus Dodds Paul Wilkinson GERMAN LITERATURE ISLAM M alise Ruthven Nicholas Boyle ISLAMIC HISTORY A dam Silverstein GERMAN PHILOSOPHY ITALIAN LITERATURE Andrew Bowie P eter Hainsworth and David Robey GLOBAL CATASTROPHES JESUS R ichard Bauckham Bill McGuire JOURNALISM I an Hargreaves GLOBAL ECONOMIC JUDAISM N orman Solomon HISTORY R obert C. Allen JUNG A nthony Stevens GLOBAL WARMING M ark Maslin KABBALAH J oseph Dan GLOBALIZATION M anfred Steger KAFKA R itchie Robertson THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE KANT R oger Scruton NEW DEAL E ric Rauchway KEYNES R obert Skidelsky HABERMAS J ames Gordon Finlayson KIERKEGAARD P atrick Gardiner HEGEL P eter Singer THE KORAN M ichael Cook HEIDEGGER M ichael Inwood LANDSCAPES AND HERODOTUS J ennifer T. Roberts GEOMORPHOLOGY HIEROGLYPHS P enelope Wilson Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles HINDUISM K im Knott LATE ANTIQUITY G illian Clark HISTORY J ohn H. Arnold LAW R aymond Wacks THE HISTORY OF THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS ASTRONOMY M ichael Hoskin Peter Atkins THE HISTORY OF LIFE LEADERSHIP K eith Grint Michael Benton LINCOLN A llen C. Guelzo THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS LINGUISTICS P eter Matthews Jacqueline Stedall LITERARY THEORY J onathan Culler THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE LOCKE J ohn Dunn William Bynum LOGIC G raham Priest THE HISTORY OF TIME MACHIAVELLI Q uentin Skinner - Leofranc Holford S trevens MADNESS A ndrew Scull HIV/AIDS A lan Whiteside MAGIC O wen Davies HOBBES R ichard Tuck THE MARQUIS DE SADE J ohn Phillips HUMAN EVOLUTION B ernard Wood MARTIN LUTHER S cott H. Hendrix HUMAN RIGHTS A ndrew Clapham MARX P eter Singer HUMANISM S tephen Law MATHEMATICS T imothy Gowers HUME A . J. Ayer THE MEANING OF LIFE IDEOLOGY M ichael Freeden Terry Eagleton INDIAN PHILOSOPHY MEDICAL ETHICS T ony Hope Sue Hamilton MEDIEVAL BRITAIN J ohn Gillingham INFORMATION L uciano Floridi and Ralph A. Griffiths INNOVATION M ark Dodgson and MEMORY J onathan K. Foster David Gann MICHAEL FARADAY INTELLIGENCE I an J. Deary Frank A.J.L. James MODERN ART D avid Cottington MODERN CHINA R ana Mitter PAUL E . P. Sanders MODERN FRANCE PENTECOSTALISM W illiam K. Kay Vanessa R. Schwartz THE PERIODIC TABLE E ric R. Scerri MODERN IRELAND S enia Pašeta PHILOSOPHY E dward Craig MODERN JAPAN PHILOSOPHY OF LAW Christopher Goto-Jones Raymond Wacks MODERN LATIN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE LITERATURE Samir Okasha Roberto González Echevarría PHOTOGRAPHY S teve Edwards MODERNISM C hristopher Butler PLANETS D avid A. Rothery MOLECULES P hilip Ball PLATO J ulia Annas MORMONISM POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY D avid Miller Richard Lyman Bushman POLITICS K enneth Minogue MUHAMMAD J onathan A.C. Brown POSTCOLONIALISM R obert Young MULTICULTURALISM A li Rattansi POSTMODERNISM MUSIC N icholas Cook Christopher Butler MYTH R obert A. Segal POSTSTRUCTURALISM NATIONALISM S teven Grosby Catherine Belsey NELSON MANDELA E lleke Boehmer PREHISTORY C hris Gosden NEOLIBERALISM M anfred Steger and PRESOCRATIC Ravi Roy PHILOSOPHY C atherine Osborne THE NEW TESTAMENT PRIVACY R aymond Wacks Luke Timothy Johnson PROGRESSIVISM W alter Nugent THE NEW TESTAMENT AS PROTESTANTISM M ark A. Noll LITERATURE K yle Keefer PSYCHIATRY T om Burns NEWTON R obert Iliffe PSYCHOLOGY G illian Butler and NIETZSCHE M ichael Tanner Freda McManus - NINETEENTH CENTURY PURITANISM F rancis J. Bremer BRITAIN C hristopher Harvie and THE QUAKERS P ink Dandelion H. C. G. Matthew QUANTUM THEORY THE NORMAN CONQUEST John Polkinghorne George Garnett RACISM A li Rattansi NORTH AMERICAN THE REAGAN REVOLUTION INDIANS T heda Perdue and Gil Troy Michael D. Green REALITY J an Westerhoff NORTHERN IRELAND THE REFORMATION P eter Marshall Marc Mulholland RELATIVITY R ussell Stannard NOTHING F rank Close RELIGION IN AMERICA NUCLEAR POWER M axwell Irvine Timothy Beal NUCLEAR WEAPONS THE RENAISSANCE J erry Brotton Joseph M. Siracusa RENAISSANCE ART NUMBERS P eter M. Higgins Geraldine A. Johnson THE OLD TESTAMENT RISK B aruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany M ichael D. Coogan ROMAN BRITAIN P eter Salway ORGANIZATIONS M ary Jo Hatch THE ROMAN EMPIRE PAGANISM O wen Davies Christopher Kelly PARTICLE PHYSICS F rank Close ROMANTICISM M ichael Ferber ROUSSEAU R obert Wokler SPINOZA R oger Scruton RUSSELL A . C. Grayling STATISTICS D avid J. Hand RUSSIAN LITERATURE C atriona Kelly STEM CELLS J onathan Slack THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION STUART BRITAIN J ohn Morrill S. A. Smith SUPERCONDUCTIVITY SCHIZOPHRENIA C hris Frith and Stephen Blundell Eve Johnstone TERRORISM C harles Townshend SCHOPENHAUER THEOLOGY D avid F. Ford Christopher Janaway THOMAS AQUINAS F ergus Kerr SCIENCE AND RELIGION TOCQUEVILLE H arvey C. Mansfield Thomas Dixon TRAGEDY A drian Poole SCIENCE FICTION D avid Seed THE TUDORS J ohn Guy - THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION TWENTIETH CENTURY Lawrence M. Principe BRITAIN K enneth O. Morgan SCOTLAND R ab Houston THE UNITED NATIONS SEXUALITY V éronique Mottier Jussi M. Hanhimäki SHAKESPEARE G ermaine Greer THE U.S. CONGRESS D onald A. Ritchie SIKHISM E leanor Nesbitt THE U.S. SUPREME COURT SLEEP S teven W. Lockley and L inda Greenhouse Russell G. Foster UTOPIANISM L yman Tower Sargent SOCIAL AND CULTURAL THE VIKINGS J ulian Richards ANTHROPOLOGY VIRUSES D orothy H. Crawford John Monaghan and Peter Just WITCHCRAFT M alcolm Gaskill SOCIALISM M ichael Newman WITTGENSTEIN A . C. Grayling SOCIOLOGY S teve Bruce WORLD MUSIC P hilip Bohlman SOCRATES C . C. W. Taylor THE WORLD TRADE THE SOVIET UNION S tephen Lovell ORGANIZATION A mrita Narlikar THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR WRITING AND SCRIPT Helen Graham A ndrew Robinson SPANISH LITERATURE J o Labanyi A vailable soon: Plague P aul Slack Probability J ohn Haigh Russian History Plants T imothy Walker G eoffrey Hosking Engineering D avid Blockley F or more information visit our website w ww.oup.co.uk/general/vsi/ L inda Greenhouse The U.S. Supreme Court A Very Short Introduction 1 Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offi ces in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright © 2012 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press A ll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Greenhouse, Linda. The U.S. Supreme Court : a very short introduction / Linda Greenhouse. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-19-975454-0 (pbk.) 1. United States. Supreme Court. 2. Judicial process—United States. I. Title. II. Title: United States Supreme Court. KF8742.G744 2012 347.73′26—dc23 2011031589 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in Great Britain by Ashford Colour Press Ltd., Gosport, Hants. on acid-free paper For Gene and Hannah

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