TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burns,James MacGregor
TI  - Packing the court: the rise of judicial power and the coming crisis of the Supreme Court 
SN  - 9781594202193
AV  - KF 8742 B967p 2009
U1  - 347.73 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - The Penguin Press
KW  - United States
KW  - Supreme Court
KW  - History
KW  - Political questions and judicial power
KW  - Judges
KW  - Selection and appointment
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-312) and index; The first courtpackers -- John Marshall's Constitution -- The Dred decision -- War powers: Lincoln vs. Taney -- Deconstruction: Republican reversal -- A court for the gilded age -- The triumphant Mr. Taft -- FDR's boldest gamble -- "Wild horses" : the Roosevelt court -- Leadership: the Warren court -- Republicans as activists -- Hard right: the Cheney-Bush court -- Ending judicial supremacy -- The justices of the Supreme Court
N2  - From renowned political theorist and Pulitzer Prize winner James MacGregor Burns, an illuminating critique of how an unstable, unaccountable, and frequently partisan Supreme Court has come to wield more power than the founding fathers ever intended
ER  -