Packing the Court: The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781410419729 (141041972X)
Publish date: October 1st 2009
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 561
Edition language: English
An interesting historical review showing that the Supreme Court has always acted in a political and partisan fashion, and that the threatened court packing in FDR's time was nothing new. I had never realized that the Court had been expanded and contracted numerous times before then, to achieve poli...