Thurgood Marshall : The First African-American Supreme Court Justice [1 ed.] 9781502619334, 9781502619327

Thurgood Marshall is best known for being the first African-American Supreme Court justice. However, he also was the law

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Thurgood Marshall : The First African-American Supreme Court Justice [1 ed.]
9781502619334, 9781502619327

A revelatory biography of the first African American Supreme Court Justice--one of the giants of the civil rights moveme

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Seldom has American law seen a more towering figure than Chief Justice John Marshall. Indeed, Marshall is almost univers

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Todd Ruger covers the Supreme Court 2018 term that saw newly appointed conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch finding his foo

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Every Supreme Court transition presents an opportunity for a shift in the balance of the third branch of American govern

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On February 26, 1946, an African American from Houston applied for admission to the University of Texas School of Law. A

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Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction. The End of the Kennedy Court; 1. Drawing Political Lines; 2

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When the Democrat-appointed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg criticized Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, she tri

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When the Democrat-appointed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg criticized Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, she tri

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A soul-stirring biography ofJohn Marshall, the young republic's great chief justice, who led the Supreme Court to p

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Beginning in 1935, the Supreme Court's conservative majority left much of FDR's agenda in ruins. The pillars o

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