02722cam a2200361 i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700700030003400800410003701000170007802000290009502000260012402000260015004000230017604100080019904200080020704300120021505000240022708200160025110000330026724501140030026400480041430000410046233600260050333700280052933800270055750400510058450504360063552010470107161000440211861000460216277601520220823613989BJBSDDR20250519164857.0ta240320s2024    nyua     b    001 0 eng    a  2024012852  a9780197780350 (hardback)  a0197780350 (hardback)  z9780197780374q(epub)  aDLCbengerdacDLC  aeng  apcc  an-us---14aKF 8742bB219m 202400a347.73/26091 aBanner, Stuart Alan, d1963-14aThe most powerful court in the world :ba history of the Supreme Court of the United States /cStuart Banner. 1aNew York :bOxford University Press,c2024.  a658 pages ;billustrations ;c24 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aEstablishing the court -- Itinerant judges on a part-time court -- Federal and state power -- Slaves and Indians --The court and the Civil War -- Life at the court, 1870-1930 -- The Jim Crow court -- The Lochner era -- The birth of the modern court -- Court-packing and constitutional change -- The justices at war -- Desegregation -- The liberal court -- A partial counterrevolution -- New paths to the court -- Back to the right.  a"In the United States, we answer some of our most bitterly contested questions by presenting them to nine elderly lawyers, the justices of the Supreme Court. The Court was the most powerful court in the world when it was established in the late 1700s, and until recently it has had no competitors for the title. This book is about how the Court acquired so much power, how it has retained its power in the face of repeated challenges, and what it has done with its power over the years. The book shows that from the beginning, the Court has always been tasked with deciding high-profile cases involving issues that a great many people cared deeply about, along with a much larger number of obscure cases raising technical questions of little interest to most people. Critics of the Court's best-known decisions have always accused the justices of deciding cases on political rather than legal grounds. In this respect, today's criticism of the Court continues a tradition that has lasted for more than two centuries"--cProvided by publisher.10aUnited States.bSupreme CourtxHistory.14aEstados Unidos.bCorte SupremaxHistoria 08iOnline version:aBanner, Stuart, 1963-tMost powerful court in the worlddNew York : Oxford University Press, 2024z9780197780374w(DLC) 2024012853