The Brethren

Inside the Supreme Court

Bob Woodward, Scott Armstrong

• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Anno: 2011
• ISBN:
  9781439126349
• Argomento: Politics & International Relations
• Categoria: American Government

The Brethren is the first detailed behind-the-scenes account of the Supreme Court in action. Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secrecy to give us an unprecedented view of the Chief and Associate Justices—maneuvering, arguing, politicking, compromising, and making decisions that affect every major area of American life.

Index

abortion cases, 197–213, 219–28, 264, 275–89, 501–5

federal jurisdiction issue, 197–204 passim, 211, 213

Adams, Arlin M., 485, 486

Adickes v. S.H. Kress & Co., 72

affirmative action, 339–40

Agnew, Spiro, 9, 86, 364n.

Aikens v. California, 247n., 256

Air Force, sex discrimination, 306–8

Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, 38–63, 111

Alexander v. Louisiana, 204

Alexander v. Virginia, 246n.

Alexandria Scrap Co. v. Hughes, 488

Ali, Muhammad, 162–65, 179

aliens

admission to bar, 309–10

border searches, 312–14, 443, 465–66, 539

federal jobs, 488

Almeida-Sanchez v. U.S., 312–14, 465–66

Amalgamated Food Employees Union v. Logan Valley Plaza, 214, 217

American Bar Association, 7, 21, 38, 77, 179, 190–96 passim, 486

American Civil Liberties Union, 153, 333, 450

Amsterdam, Anthony, 250–51, 252–53, 525–27, 536, 537n.

antitrust cases, 266–67, 464–65

baseball, 224, 228–31

rehearing of El Paso case, 92–100

unions, 458–59

antiwar protesters, 70, 151–65, 212, 214–18, 315n., 485

arrests at Supreme Court, 159–62

Antoine v. Washington, 435–36

Apodaca v. Oregon, 269

appointments, see nominations

Ashe v. Swenson, 83–85

assignment of cases (see also Burger, Warren E., names of cases), xvii, 72–73, 141–42, 317, 507–9

as issue, 204–6, 215–18, 225–28, 507–12 passim, 528–32

Associate Justices (see also names), 11, 13

Atlanta, obscenity case, 294ff.

Autobiography of Malcolm X (Haley), 163

Ayres, Charles, 290

Bagby, Marty, 433, 481

Baird, W...