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Deciding to Leave : The Politics of Retirement from the United States Supreme Court.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY Series in American Constitutionalism SeriesPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (359 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780791487228
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Deciding to LeaveDDC classification:
  • 347.73/2634
LOC classification:
  • KF8742 .W368 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Deciding to Leave -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Preface -- 1. The Politics of Departure in the U.S. Supreme Court -- DEPARTURE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- DEPARTURE POLITICS IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT: EMERGENT AND RECURRENT STRUCTURES -- OVERVIEW -- 2. 1789-1800: Traveling Postboys -- INDISPOSITION AND THE EARLY SUPREME COURT -- DISAGREEABLE TOURS -- CONCLUSION -- 3. 1801-1868: Crippled Courts -- ARMY OF JUDGES -- IMMINENT DANGER OF SUDDEN DEATH -- NEEDY AND HALF-PAID MEN -- ABRIDGMENT OF TENURE, FACILITY OF REMOVAL, OR SOME OTHER MODIFICATION -- IF MR. CLAY HAD BEEN ELECTED -- CONCLUSION -- 4. 1869-1896: Old Imbeciles on the Bench -- DANGEROUS IN ITS OPERATION -- 1869 RETIREMENT ACT -- THE DISPUTED ELECTION OF 1876 -- THE EVARTS ACT -- CONCLUSION -- 5. 1897-1936: Old Fools and Young Spirits -- THE FIELD EFFECT -- EVARTS ACT REDUX -- INCREASED CASELOADS: BOWING TO THE INEVITABLE -- CONCLUSION -- 6. 1937-1954: Senior Status -- A WAR WITH A FOOL AT THE TOP -- 1937 RETIREMENT ACT -- UNTIMELY DEATHS -- CONCLUSION -- 7. 1954-1970: The Limits of Power -- 1954 RETIREMENT ACT -- CANTANKEROUS FELLOWS -- AN EXTRACONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT -- CONCLUSION -- 8. 1971-1999: Appointed for Life -- HE OUGHT TO GET OFF THE COURT TOO -- OLD AND COMING APART -- CONCLUSION -- 9. 2000-Present: A Self-Inflicted Wound -- THE DISPUTED ELECTION OF 2000: BUSH V. GORE -- THAT'S FOR ME TO KNOW AND YOU TO FIND OUT -- CONCLUSION -- 10. Conclusion: Imaginary Danger? -- ABILITY AND INABILITY -- THE RULE OF 100 -- LIGHTENING THE BURDEN -- MANDATORY RETIREMENT -- CONCLUSION -- Appendix A: Letter from Byron White to Warren Burger, October 20, 1975.
Appendix B: Letter from Warren E. Burger, William J. Brennan, Jr., Potter Stewart, Byron R.White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry A. Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, and William H. Rehnquist to William O. Douglas, December 22, 1975 -- Appendix C: Letter from John Paul Stevens to William H. Rehnquist, October 28, 1988 -- Notes -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- CHAPTER -- CHAPTER 9 -- CHAPTER 10 -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: The first sustained examination of the process by which justices elect to leave the United States Supreme Court.
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Intro -- Deciding to Leave -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Preface -- 1. The Politics of Departure in the U.S. Supreme Court -- DEPARTURE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- DEPARTURE POLITICS IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT: EMERGENT AND RECURRENT STRUCTURES -- OVERVIEW -- 2. 1789-1800: Traveling Postboys -- INDISPOSITION AND THE EARLY SUPREME COURT -- DISAGREEABLE TOURS -- CONCLUSION -- 3. 1801-1868: Crippled Courts -- ARMY OF JUDGES -- IMMINENT DANGER OF SUDDEN DEATH -- NEEDY AND HALF-PAID MEN -- ABRIDGMENT OF TENURE, FACILITY OF REMOVAL, OR SOME OTHER MODIFICATION -- IF MR. CLAY HAD BEEN ELECTED -- CONCLUSION -- 4. 1869-1896: Old Imbeciles on the Bench -- DANGEROUS IN ITS OPERATION -- 1869 RETIREMENT ACT -- THE DISPUTED ELECTION OF 1876 -- THE EVARTS ACT -- CONCLUSION -- 5. 1897-1936: Old Fools and Young Spirits -- THE FIELD EFFECT -- EVARTS ACT REDUX -- INCREASED CASELOADS: BOWING TO THE INEVITABLE -- CONCLUSION -- 6. 1937-1954: Senior Status -- A WAR WITH A FOOL AT THE TOP -- 1937 RETIREMENT ACT -- UNTIMELY DEATHS -- CONCLUSION -- 7. 1954-1970: The Limits of Power -- 1954 RETIREMENT ACT -- CANTANKEROUS FELLOWS -- AN EXTRACONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT -- CONCLUSION -- 8. 1971-1999: Appointed for Life -- HE OUGHT TO GET OFF THE COURT TOO -- OLD AND COMING APART -- CONCLUSION -- 9. 2000-Present: A Self-Inflicted Wound -- THE DISPUTED ELECTION OF 2000: BUSH V. GORE -- THAT'S FOR ME TO KNOW AND YOU TO FIND OUT -- CONCLUSION -- 10. Conclusion: Imaginary Danger? -- ABILITY AND INABILITY -- THE RULE OF 100 -- LIGHTENING THE BURDEN -- MANDATORY RETIREMENT -- CONCLUSION -- Appendix A: Letter from Byron White to Warren Burger, October 20, 1975.

Appendix B: Letter from Warren E. Burger, William J. Brennan, Jr., Potter Stewart, Byron R.White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry A. Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, and William H. Rehnquist to William O. Douglas, December 22, 1975 -- Appendix C: Letter from John Paul Stevens to William H. Rehnquist, October 28, 1988 -- Notes -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- CHAPTER -- CHAPTER 9 -- CHAPTER 10 -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

The first sustained examination of the process by which justices elect to leave the United States Supreme Court.

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