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Deciding to leave : the politics of retirement from the United States Supreme Court /
While much has been written on Supreme Court appointments, Deciding to Leave provides the first systematic look at the process by which justices decide to retire from the bench, and why this has become increasingly partisan in recent years. Since 1954, generous retirement provisions and decreasing w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2003.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in American constitutionalism.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Politics of Departure in the U.S. Supreme Court
- 2. 1789-1800: Traveling Postboys
- 3. 1801-1868: Crippled Courts
- 4. 1869-1896: Old Imbeciles on the Bench
- 5. 1897-1936: Old Fools and Young Spirits
- 6. 1937-1954: Senior Status
- 7. 1954-1970: The Limits of Power
- 8. 1971-1999: Appointed for Life
- 9. 2000-Present: A Self-Inflicted Wound
- 10. Conclusion: Imaginary Danger?
- App. A Letter from Byron White to Warren Burger, October 20 1975
- App. B Letter from Warren E. Burger, William J. Brennan, Jr., Potter Stewart, Byron R. White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry A. Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, and William H. Rehnquist to William O. Douglas, December 22, 1975
- App. C Letter from John Paul Stevens to William H. Rehnquist, October 28, 1988.