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Court-Curbing Periods In American History, Stuart S. Nagel
Court-Curbing Periods In American History, Stuart S. Nagel
Vanderbilt Law Review
Due to its unavoidable involvement in the political process, the Supreme Court has often been an object of congressional attack. Excellent descriptive studies have been made of certain periods of conflict between Congress and the Court,' but there is a lack of writing which systematically analyzes relations between Congress and the Court throughout American history. It is the purpose of this: paper to analyze in a partially quantitative manner some of the factors which seem to account for the occurrence or nonoccurrence and for the success or failure of congressional attempts to curb the Court.
Theodore Roosevelt And The Appointment Of Mr. Justice Moody, Paul T. Heffron
Theodore Roosevelt And The Appointment Of Mr. Justice Moody, Paul T. Heffron
Vanderbilt Law Review
The author here describes the events leading to the appointment of William Henry Moody to the United States Supreme Court. Here counts the pressures brought to bear on President Theodore Roosevelt and the considerations which led to the President's selection of Moody over Horace Harmon Lurton.
Salmon P. Chase: Chief Justice, David F. Hughes
Salmon P. Chase: Chief Justice, David F. Hughes
Vanderbilt Law Review
This article is not an in-depth study of some aspect of Salmon P. Chase's career as Chief Justice. Nor is it a survey of his judicial career. Rather, it is an attempt to present an overall view of Chase as Chief Justice through an examination of a limited number of topics. Such an approach seemed appropriate, for the sweep of his days on the Court are not well enough known to make a detailed study of one aspect of his career particularly valuable, nor is enough known about him to make a summary more than an exercise in superficiality. In …