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Title The Supreme Court [electronic resource] : a C-SPAN book featuring the justices in their own words / editors, Brian Lamb, Susan Swain, and Mark Farkas.

Imprint New York : PublicAffairs, 2011.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xviii, 395 p. [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports.
Series A C-Span book
Note Includes index.
Hardcover first published in 2010.
Contents Pt. 1. The justices : Chief Justice John Roberts -- John Paul Stevens -- Antonin Scalia -- Anthony Kennedy -- Clarence Thomas -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- Stephen Breyer -- Samuel Alito -- Sonia Sotomayor -- Sandra Day O'connor (retired) -- Pt. 2. Supreme Court experts : Joan Biskupic, reporter, USA Today -- Drew Days III, former Solicitor general -- Lyle Denniston, reporter, SCOTUS blog -- Maureen Mahoney, attorney and former Supreme Court law clerk -- James B. O'Hara, Supreme Court historian -- William Suter, Clerk of the Supreme Court -- Pt. 3. Supplementary material : Biographies of the justices -- Members of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-2010 -- Recent C-SPAN surveys of public awareness of the Supreme Court -- Number of Supreme Court petitions and arguments heard, 1980-2008 -- C-SPAN requests for same-day release of oral arguments -- Excerpt from the opinion Marbury v. Madison -- Biography of John Marshall, the "Great Chief".
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject United States. Supreme Court.
United States. Supreme Court -- History.
Judges -- United States -- Interviews.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Lamb, Brian, 1941-
Swain, Susan.
Farkas, Mark.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781586488352 (hbk.)
158648835X (hbk.)
9781610391122 (E-book enhanced ISBN)
9781586489557

 
    
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