The following books are available in the Law Library at the call numbers listed. This is just a small sampling of the library's resources on this topic. For more, go to the library catalog and search for the subjects "political questions and judicial power, United States" or "judicial independence, United States".
Lee Epstein, The Choices Justices Make, CQ Press, 1998
KF8742 .E67 1998
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Edward Lazarus, Closed Chambers: the First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court, Times Books, 2005 (revised ed.)
RESERVE KF8742 .L39 2005
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Mark Silverstein, Constitutional Faiths: Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, and the Process of Judicial Decision Making, Cornell University Press, 1984
KF8744 .S548 1984
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Mark V. Tushnet, In the Balance: Law and Politics on the Roberts Court, 2013
KF8775 .T88 2013
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Henry Julian Abraham, Justices, Presidents and Senators: a History of Supreme Court Appointments From Washington to Bush II, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008 (5th ed.)
RESERVE KF8742 .A27 2008
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Martin M. Shapiro, Law and Politics in the Supreme Court: New Approaches to Political Jurisprudence, Free Press of Glencoe, 1964
KF8748 .S53 1964
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Alexander M. Bickel, The Least Dangerous Branch: the Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics, Yale University Press, 1986 (2nd ed.)
KF8742 .B52 1986
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Anna L. Harvey, A Mere Machine: the Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy, Yale University Press, 2013
KF8742 .H378 2013
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Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, Doubleday, 2007
RESERVE KF8748 .T66 2007
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Howard Ball, Of Power and Right: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and America's Constitutional Revolution, Oxford University Press, 1991
KF8744 .B34 1991
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Jeff Yates, Popular Justice: Presidential Prestige and Executive Success in the Supreme Court, State University of New York Press, 2002
KF8742 .Y38 2002
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Lawrence S. Wrightsman, The Psychology of the Supreme Court, Oxford University Press, 2006
KF8748 .W75 2006
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Stanley H. Friedelbaum, The Rehnquist Court: In Pursuit of Judicial Conservatism, Greenwood Press, 1994
KF8748 .F75 1994
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George Watson, Shaping America: the Politics of Supreme Court Appointments, HarperCollins, 1995
KF8742 .W388 1995
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David M. O'Brien, Storm Center: the Supreme Court in American Politics, W.W. Norton & Co., 2014 (10th ed.)
RESERVE KF8742 .O27 2014
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William R. Casto, The Supreme Court in the Early Republic: the Chief Justiceships of John Jay and Oliver Ellsworth, University of South Carolina Press, 1995
KF8742 .C388 1995
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Joyce A. Baugh, Supreme Court Justices in the Post-Bork Era: Confirmation Politics and Judicial Performance, P. Lang, 2002
KF8776 .B38 2002
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Frances Howell Rudko, Truman's Court: a Study in Judicial Restraint, Greenwood Press, 1988
KF8742 .R83 1988