01672cam a2200313 4500 122792814 TxAuBib 20070618120000.0 051007s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780307290328 0307290328 9780307290144 030729014X (OCoLC)61856405 SFP SFP UUP TxAuBib Rehnquist, William H., 1924- The Supreme Court / William H. Rehnquist. New ed. New York : Knopf, 2004. xi, 302 pgs., HB ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-287 and index.) Law clerk comes to Washington -- Marbury v. Madison -- Marshall Court -- Taney Court -- Justices Peckham, Holmes, and Brandeis -- Court-packing plan -- New Deal Court -- Steel seizure case in the lower courts -- Warren Court -- Presidential appointments to the Supreme Court -- Certioraris : picking the cases to be decided -- How the court does its work: oral argument -- How the court does its work: deciding the cases -- Court in its third century. Using biographical sketches of successive chief justices and associate justices and describing landmark cases, Rehnquist shows us how, as our country has grown and our politics have changed, the Court has moved in tandem with executive and legislative branches to become the diverse and complex body we see in the present. 20070618. United States Supreme Court History. Judges United States Biography. cs. TXING