Scales of Justice: Further Reading
The following links and documents relate to the BackStory episode “Scales of Justice: A History of Supreme Court Nominations”, originally broadcast in June of 2010. You can listen to the entire episode here.
All Centuries
- “The Supreme Court,” a 2006 PBS documentary with videos and lesson plans
- A History of the Supreme Court published online by the Supreme Court Historical Society
- A bounty of links from the History News Network
- The Oyez Project collects audio and transcripts of Supreme Court cases for public access
- The Senate Judiciary Committee’s page of resources
- Supreme Court Nominations Resource Guide from Georgetown Law Library
- Congressional Research Service report on Supreme Court nominations, 1789-2009 (PDF)
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg on women and the Supreme Court
18th Century
- The Library of Congress’ webpage on the Judiciary Act of 1789
- What did the Federalist Papers say about Supreme Court appointments?
- Info on early circuit riding and the history of US Circuit Courts
- History of the understudied pre-Marshall court
- Memoirs of Malvina Shanklin Harlan, wife of Justice John Marshall Harlan (excerpt also available here)
19th Century
- American Bar Association publication (PDF) on the 200th anniversary of Marbury v. Madison, plus other landmark cases of the 19th century
- “Five Justices & The Grand Commission: Deciding the Presidential Election of 1876,” an online documentary
20th Century
- The Boston Globe on “Courtpacking”
- Behind the scenes: the Papers of Justice Harry Blackmun
- The Supreme Court and Civil Rights
- American Radioworks documentary: Thurgood Marshall: Before the Court
- Former Supreme Court Nominee Robert Bork on the nominations process
- The Supreme Court Database contains info on cases from 1953-2008
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