Steamer, Robert
Stevens, John Paul
appointed to Supreme Court
Bush v. Gore and
compromises with conservative bloc
as leader of liberal bloc
Hamdan and
Stevenson, Adlai
Stewart, Potter
Stone, Harlan Fiske
appointed chief justice
appointed associate justice
Carolene and
civil liberties and
as dissenter
leadership of court by
FDR’s court-packing plan and
Japanese-American cases and
Story, Joseph:
appointed to Supreme Court
as Marshall ally
Strader v. Graham
Strong, William
Strum, Philippa
Stuart v. Laird
Sumners, Hatton
Sununu, John
supremacy, judicial; see judicial supremacy
supremacy clause in Constitution
Supreme Court:
activism in, see judicial activism; judicial restraint; and specific justices
appointment of justices of ; see also specific presidents and justices
authority over Congress ; see also Congress; judicial review
checks and balances and
circuit duty of justices on
constitutional interpretation by, see constitutional interpretation; judicial activism; judicial restraint; judicial review; judicial supremacy
ending supremacy of
establishment of, by 1789 Judiciary Act
Framers’ intentions and
impeachment of justices on
judicial review by, see judicial review
life tenure for justices on
number of justices on
quarters for
packing of, see court-packing
political partisanship and ; see also court-packing; and specific political parties, justices, and presidents
supremacy of, see judicial supremacy
as third house of Congress
see also specific issues, cases, and justices
Supreme Court cases:
Abrams v. U.S.
Adair v. U.S.
Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health
Bailey v. Drexel Furniture
Baker v. Carr
Baze v. Rees
Boumediene v. Bush
Brown v. Board of Education
Bush v. Gore
Carter v. Carter Coal Co.
Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R.R. v. Minnesota
City of Boerne v. Flores
City of Richmond v. Croson
Civil Rights Cases
Cohens v. Virginia
Colegrove v. Green
Supreme Court cases (cont.)
Crawford v. Marion County Election Board
Dennis v. U.S.
District of Columbia v. Heller
Dred Scott, see Dred Scott
Edwards v. California
Escobedo v. Illinois
Fletcher v. Peck
Gideon v. Wainwright
Gitlow v. New York
Gray v. Sanders
Griswold v. Connecticut
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Hepburn v. Griswold
Hirabayashi v. U.S.
Jones v. Opelika
Korematsu v. U.S.
Lawrence v. Texas
Legal Tender Cases
Lochner v. New York
Loewe v. Lawlor
Luther v. Borden
McCulloch v. Maryland
Mapp v. Ohio
Marbury v. Madison
Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee
Minersville School District v. Gobitis
Miranda v. Arizona
Morehead v. New York ex rel. Tipaldo
Muller v. Oregon
Munn v. Illinois
Murdock v. Pennsylvania
National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
Northern Securities Co. v. U.S.
Payne v. Tennessee
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
Plessy v. Ferguson
Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co.
Prigg v. Pennsylvania
Prize Cases
Rasul v. Bush
Reagan v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust
Roe v. Wade, see Roe v. Wade
Romer v. Evans
Santa Clara Co. v. Southern Pacific R.R.
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. U.S.
Schenck v. U.S.
Schneiderman v. U.S.
Slaughterhouse Cases
Strader v. Graham
Stuart v. Laird
U.S. v. Butler
U.S. v. Carolene Products U.S. v. Cruikshank
U.S. v. E. C. Knight Co.
U.S. v. Nixon
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific R.R. v. Illinois
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish
West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette
Whitney v. California
Sutherland, George
appointed to Supreme Court
as leading anti-New Deal conservative
Swayne, Noah
Taft, Robert
Taft, William Howard
appointed chief justice
conservative judicial activism of
Harding’s Supreme Court appointments influenced by
Holmes and Brandeis and
judicial review and
leadership of court by
retirement and death of
role of Supreme Court, as viewed by
Supreme Court appointments by
Theodore Roosevelt and
Taney, Roger B.
appointed chief justice
citizenship and
Dred Scott and
Ex parte Merryman and
illness of
Jackson and
judicial restraint and
judicial review and
Lincoln and
presidential powers and
as Republican target
slavery and
states’ rights and
on the Supreme Court’s role
Union and
taxes, and Supreme Court:
to curb child labor
federal processing
income
on judicial salaries
licensing, and free speech
regulatory
by states
Taxpayers Associations
Tennessee Payne v. Tennessee
terror, war on
Texas
City of Boerne
Lawrence
Roe
Thomas, Clarence
appointed to Supreme Court
Bush v. Gore and
as conservative activist
as member of conservative “phalanx,”
presidential power and
Thompson, Smith
Thornberry, Homer
Thurmond, Strom
Tilden, Samuel
Todd, Thomas
Truman, Harry
Supreme Court appointments by
trust-busting, see antitrust actions
Tyler, John
unions ; see also labor and workers’ rights
U.S. v. Butler
U.S. v. Carolene Products U.S. v. Cruikshank
U.S. v. E. C. Knight Co.
U.S. v. Nixon
Vallandigham, Clement
Van Buren, Martin
Van Devanter, Willis
retirement of
Vermont
Vietnam War
Vinson, Fred
appointed chief justice
Brown and
domestic communism and
judicial restraint and
Virginia
City
of Richmond v. Croson
Cohens
Martin
voting rights:
Bush v. Gore and
denial of, to African Americans
Fifteenth Amendment and
malapportionment and
voting fraud law and
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific R.R. v. Illinois
Wagner Act (1935)
Waite, Morrison R.
African-American rights and
appointed chief justice
state regulatory powers and
states’ rights and
Wall Street Journal
War of 1812,
Warren, Earl
appointed chief justice
Brown and
civil liberties and
criminal justice and
leadership of court by
liberal judicial activism of
opposition to
relations with colleagues
resignation of
voting rights and
Washington, Bushrod
appointed to Supreme Court
as Marshall ally
Washington.C.
Washington, George
court-packing by
Federalism of
Marshall and
on Supreme Court’s role
Watergate
Wayne, James
Wealth of Nations (Smith)
Weaver, James B.
Webster, Daniel
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
Welles, Gideon
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish
West Virginia
West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette
Wheeler, Burton
Whig party
Whiskey Rebellion
White, Byron “Whizzer,”
appointed to Supreme Court
as judicial conservative
Roe and
White, Edward D.
White, G. Edward
White, William Allen
White Monday
Whitney v. California
Whittaker, Charles
Whittington, Keith
Wilkinson, J. Harvie
Williams, George
Wilmot, David
Wilmot Proviso
Wilson, James
Wilson, Woodrow
Supreme Court appointments by
on judicial reform
Wisconsin
Woods, William B.
workers’ rights, see labor and workers’ rights
World War I,
World War II,
Japanese Americans and
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