INTRODUCTION A Law Clerk Comes to Washington 3
CHAPTER 1 Marbury v. Madison 21
CHAPTER 2 The Marshall Court 36
CHAPTER 3 The Taney Court 44
CHAPTER 4 Justices Miller and Field 70
CHAPTER 5 Justices Peckham, Holmes, and Brandeis 101
CHAPTER 6 The Court-Packing Plan 116
CHAPTER 7 The New Deal Court 134
CHAPTER 8 The Steel Seizure Case in the Lower Courts 151
CHAPTER 9 The Steel Seizure Case in the Supreme Court 169
CHAPTER 10 The Warren Court 193
CHAPTER 11 Presidential Appointments to the Supreme Court 209
CHAPTER 12 Certioraris: Picking the Cases to Be Decided 224
CHAPTER 13 How the Court Does Its Work: Oral Argument 239
CHAPTER 14 How the Court Does Its Work: Deciding the Cases 252
CHAPTER 15 The Court in Its Third Century 267
Appendix: Table of Cases 281
Bibliography 285
Index 289