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Benched: the Supreme Court and the struggle for judicial independence / Jill Lepore -- Pt. I, The Court and its workings : Principles and Practice -- The Constitution of the United States: Article III -- The Federalist, no.78: the Judiciary Department / Publius [Alexander Hamilton] -- May I suggest a few revisions? / Forrest Wickman -- Supreme Court of the United States: Rule 10 Considerations governing review of Writ of Certiorari -- Why did the Court grant Cert in King v. Burwell? / Jonathan Adler -- Three recently accepted cases shed light on the Supreme Court's process for granting review / Vikram David Amar -- Why did Supreme Court punt on same-sex cases? / Tony Mauro -- Who's getting the work at the Supreme Court? / Tony Mauro -- A Supreme Court without Stare Decisis / Orin Kerr -- Supreme Court of the United States: information about opinions -- Writing their wrongs: Supreme Court justices regularly seek to change the errors of their ways / Mark Walsh -- The justices, their papers, and the claims of history / Christopher Schmidt -- Pt. II, The Justices : Traditional reserve, contemporary demystification -- John Roberts, Chief conservative strategist / Paul M. Barrett -- The devastating, sneaky genius of John Roberts' opinions / Emily Bazelon -- How not to misunderstand Scalia / Cass R. Sunstein -- What is Clarence Thomas thinking? / Garrett Epps -- Ruth Bader Ginsberg's retirement dissent / Amy Davidson -- Active liberty lives! / Adam Winkler -- How Sonia Sotomayor became the Supreme Court's preeminent defender of civil liberties / Scott Lemieux -- Court sense / Colleen Walsh -- Breyer and Scalia debate the role of established practice in constitutional interpretation / Christopher Schmidt -- Time to fix, or scrap, the confirmation hearings / Andrew Cohen -- Yale, Harvard, Yale, Harvard, Yale, Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, Columbia: the thing that scares me most about the Supreme Court / Dahlia Lithwick -- How judges think: a conversation with Judge Richard Posner Jonathan Masur -- Pt. III, Politics and the Court : The Supreme Court and the political landscape -- Can the Supreme Court be rescued from politics? / Scott Lemieux -- Politicizing the Supreme Court / Eric Hamilton -- By any means necessary / Linda Greenhouse -- Americans divided on how the Supreme Court should interpret the Constitution / Jocelyn Kiley -- Fault lines re-emerge in Supreme Court at end of term / Joan Biskupic -- Rare unanimity in Supreme Court term, with plenty of fireworks / Nina Totenberg -- Split definitive / Lawrence Baum and Neal Devins -- Pt. IV, Major decisions : The Supreme Court's major decisions in historical perspective -- Precedent and prologue / Jeffrey Toobin -- 2014 Election confirms Citizens United decision based on fundamentally flawed premises / Fred Wertheimer -- Obama wins the battle, Roberts wins the war / Tom Scocca -- Supreme Court's silence on marriage rights speaks volumes / Marcia Coyle -- Why the Supreme Court may finally protect your privacy in the cloud / Andy Greenberg -- Dawn patrol / Richard L. Hasen -- Supreme Court deals major blow to patent trolls / Klint Finley -- The trap in the Supreme Court's "narrow" decisions / Jeffrey Toobin -- Without actually issuing opinions, SCOTUS has already decided a lot / Erwin Chemerinsky -- How the justices move the law / Richard L. Hasen -- Pt. V, Public perceptions of the Court : Judging the bench -- Why the Supreme Court needs term limits / Norm Ornstein -- Cameras and the courtroom dynamic / Nancy Ornstein -- At Supreme Court, secretiveness attracts snoops / Richard Wolf -- A modest proposal / Christopher Schmidt -- The Supreme Court's baffling tech illiteracy is becoming a problem / Selina MacLaren -- The Supreme Court: the last bastion of American leadership? / Matt K. Lewis -- The Supreme Court's ultimate test / Laurence H. Tribe -- The Supreme Court steps: an architectural dissent / Paul Goldberger.gle for judicial independence / Jill Lepore -- Pt. I, The Court and its workings : Principles and Practice -- The Constitution of the United States: Article III -- The Federalist, no.78: the Judiciary Department / Publius [Alexander Hamilton] -- May I suggest a few revisions? / Forrest Wickman -- Supreme Court of the United States: Rule 10 Considerations governing review of Writ of Certiorari -- Why did the Court grant Cert in King v. Burwell? / Jonathan Adler -- Three recently accepted cases shed light on the Supreme Court's process for granting review / Vikram David Amar -- Why did Supreme Court punt on same-sex cases? / Tony Mauro -- Who's getting the work at the Supreme Court? / Tony Mauro -- A Supreme Court without Stare Decisis / Orin Kerr -- Supreme Court of the United States: information about opinions -- Writing their wrongs: Supreme Court justices regularly seek to change the errors of their ways / Mark Walsh -- The justices, their papers, and the claims of history / Christopher Schmidt -- Pt. II, The Justices : Traditional reserve, contemporary demystification -- John Roberts, Chief conservative strategist / Paul M. Barrett -- The devastating, sneaky genius of John Roberts' opinions / Emily Bazelon -- How not to misunderstand Scalia / Cass R. Sunstein -- What is Clarence Thomas thinking? / Garrett Epps -- Ruth Bader Ginsberg's retirement dissent / Amy Davidson -- Active liberty lives! / Adam Winkler -- How Sonia Sotomayor became the Supreme Court's preeminent defender of civil liberties / Scott Lemieux -- Court sense / Colleen Walsh -- Breyer and Scalia debate the role of established practice in constitutional interpretation / Christopher Schmidt -- Time to fix, or scrap, the confirmation hearings / Andrew Cohen -- Yale, Harvard, Yale, Harvard, Yale, Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, Columbia: the thing that scares me most about the Supreme Court / Dahlia Lithwick -- How judges think: a conversation with Judge Richard Posner Jonathan Masur -- Pt. III, Politics and the Court : The Supreme Court and the political landscape -- Can the Supreme Court be rescued from politics? / Scott Lemieux -- Politicizing the Supreme Court / Eric Hamilton -- By any means necessary / Linda Greenhouse -- Americans divided on how the Supreme Court should interpret the Constitution / Jocelyn Kiley -- Fault lines re-emerge in Supreme Court at end of term / Joan Biskupic -- Rare unanimity in Supreme Court term, with plenty of fireworks / Nina Totenberg -- Split definitive / Lawrence Baum and Neal Devins -- Pt. IV, Major decisions : The Supreme Court's major decisions in historical perspective -- Precedent and prologue / Jeffrey Toobin -- 2014 Election confirms Citizens United decision based on fundamentally flawed premises / Fred Wertheimer -- Obama wins the battle, Roberts wins the war / Tom Scocca -- Supreme Court's silence on marriage rights speaks volumes / Marcia Coyle -- Why the Supreme Court may finally protect your privacy in the cloud / Andy Greenberg -- Dawn patrol / Richard L. Hasen -- Supreme Court deals major blow to patent trolls / Klint Finley -- The trap in the Supreme Court's "narrow" decisions / Jeffrey Toobin -- Without actually issuing opinions, SCOTUS has already decided a lot / Erwin Chemerinsky -- How the justices move the law / Richard L. Hasen -- Pt. V, Public perceptions of the Court : Judging the bench -- Why the Supreme Court needs term limits / Norm Ornstein -- Cameras and the courtroom dynamic / Nancy Ornstein -- At Supreme Court, secretiveness attracts snoops / Richard Wolf -- A modest proposal / Christopher Schmidt -- The Supreme Court's baffling tech illiteracy is becoming a problem / Selina MacLaren -- The Supreme Court: the last bastion of American leadership? / Matt K. Lewis -- The Supreme Court's ultimate test / Laurence H. Tribe -- The Supreme Court steps: an