One Supreme Court : supremacy, inferiority, and the judicial power of the United States

One Supreme Court : supremacy, inferiority, and the judicial power of the United States / James E. Pfander.

In offering a general account of the Court as department head, Pfander takes up such important debates in the federal courts' literature as Congress's power to strip the federal courts of jurisdiction to review state court decisions, its authority to assign decision-making authority to sta...

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Main Author: Pfander, James E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
United States. > Supreme Court.
United States. > Supreme Court
USA > Supreme Court
Judicial power > United States.
Political questions and judicial power > United States.
Courts > United States.
Executive power > United States.
Separation of powers > United States.
War and emergency powers > United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
LAW > Legal Services.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
Courts
Executive power
Judicial power
Political questions and judicial power
Separation of powers
War and emergency powers
United States of America.
Congress.
Supreme court.
Separation of powers.
Politics.
Judicial power.
Judicial system.
Executive power.
State of emergency.
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • The problematics of federal jurisdiction
  • Supremacy and the supervisory power
  • Article III courts and Article I tribunals
  • The Supreme Court's power to supervise inferior federal courts
  • The Supreme Court and the state courts
  • Understanding the origins of Article I tribunals
  • Preserving the Court's supremacy in relation to Article I tribunals
  • Supremacy, inferiority, and Guantanamo Bay.

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