

The U.S. Supreme Court
A Very Short Introduction
Author: Linda Greenhouse
Narrator: Dina Pearlman
Unabridged: 3 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 10/31/2023
Categories: Nonfiction, Law, Constitutional Law
Synopsis
Greenhouse offers a fascinating institutional biography of a place and its people—men and women who exercise great power but whose names and faces are unrecognized by many Americans and whose work often appears cloaked in mystery. How do cases get to the Supreme Court? How do the justices go about deciding them? What special role does the chief justice play? What do the law clerks do? How does the court relate to the other branches of government? Greenhouse answers these questions by depicting the justices as they confront deep constitutional issues or wrestle with the meaning of confusing federal statutes. Throughout, the author examines many individual Supreme Court cases to illustrate points under discussion.
The third edition of Greenhouse's Very Short Introduction tracks the changes in the Court's makeup over the past decade, including the landmark decisions of the Obama and Trump eras and the emergence of a conservative supermajority.