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Article: On politics and its sway at the Supreme Court Book Review
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Michiko Kakutani The New York Times
International Herald Tribune
07-17-2009
On politics and its sway at the Supreme Court Book Review
Byline: Michiko Kakutani The New York Times
Edition: 1
Section: FEATURES
Packing the Court.
The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court. By James MacGregor Burns.
326 pages. The Penguin Press. $27.95.
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In the wake of the Supreme Court's infamous Dred Scott ruling, which effectively made slavery legal in the territories, Lincoln declared in his first Inaugural Address that "if the policy of the government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they ...