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Employees Ginsburg, Ruth Bader Judges Judges United States Biography Judges United States Biography Juvenile literature Sotomayor, Sonia 1954- United States United States. Supreme Court Officials and employees United States. Supreme Court Officials and employees Biography United States. Supreme Court.Kalman, Laura
Summary: "The Warren Court of the 1950s and 1960s was the most liberal in American history. Yet within a few short years, new appointments redirected the Court in a more conservative direction, a trend that continued for decades. However, even after Warren retired and the makeup of the court changed, his Court cast a shadow that extends to our own era. In The Long Reach of the Sixties, Laura Kalman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 347 KALThomas, Clarence
Summary: The Supreme Court justice recounts his life story, from his impoverished childhood in Jim Crow-era Georgia and struggles to acquire an education to his publicly contested confirmation to the nation's highest court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 347.73 THOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMAS, CLARENCE THODe Hart, Jane Sherron
Summary: "The first full life--private; public; legal; philosophical--of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews with the Justice, her husband, her children, her friends, and associates. In this large,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GINSBURG, RUTH BADER DEHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B GINSBURG DEHMeltzer, Brad
Summary: This volume of ordinary people change the world features Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court Justice. She is proof that with opportunity comes justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio I am SotomayorSotomayor, Sonia
Summary: "In this adaptation for middle graders based on her bestselling adult memoir, My Beloved World, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor's extraordinary life inspires. Her achievement serves as a true testament to the fact that no matter the obstacles, dreams can come true. Includes an 8-page photo insert. Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 347.73 SOTScalia, Antonin
Summary: "By any measure, Antonin Scalia lived an extraordinary life. A Supreme Court justice for three decades, he transformed the way that judges and lawyers think about the law. Married to his beloved Wife, Maureen, for more than fifty years, a father to nine children, and a grandfather to dozens, he was devoted to his family and his faith. He was gregarious, energetic, and a friend to people of all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 815 SCADavidson, Rose
Summary: Details the career of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, including her work for gender equality, her time with the ACLU, and her law career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE DAVSotomayor, Sonia
Summary: "As the first Latina Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor has inspired young people around the world to reach for their dreams. But what inspired her? For young Sonia, the answer was books! They were her mirrors, her maps, her friends, and her teachers. They helped her to connect with her family in New York and in Puerto Rico, to deal with her diabetes diagnosis, to cope with her father's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB SOTOMAYOR SOTMedina, Meg
Summary: "A chapter book biography of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, part of the She Persisted series"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SOTOrtiz, Victoria
Summary: "The life and career of the fiercely principled Supreme Court Justice, now a popular icon, with dramatic accounts of her landmark cases that moved the needle on legal protection of human rights, illustrated with b/w archival photographs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 GINSotomayor, Sonia
Summary: "An instant American icon--the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court--tells the story of her life before becoming a judge in an inspiring, surprisingly personal memoir. With startling candor and intimacy, Sonia Sotomayor recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a progress that is testament to her extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 347.73 SOTSotomayor, Sonia
Summary: "An instant American icon--the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court--tells the story of her life before becoming a judge in an inspiring, surprisingly personal memoir. With startling candor and intimacy, Sonia Sotomayor recounts her life from a Bronxhousing project to the federal bench, a progress that is testament to her extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SOTOMAYOR, SONIA SOTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SOTOMAYOR SOTBernhardt, William
Summary: Ben Kincaid is at the center of a controversial Supreme Court nomination in the thrilling follow-up to Capitol murder. Now a senator, Ben Kincaid is given the task of advising the president's next Supreme Court nominee. Judge Thaddeus Roush's popularity with both parties make him a shoo-in ... until he decided to out himself on national television, igniting a Beltway uproar and setting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERStrauss, Robert
Contents: Marshall's early years -- Marshall becomes a revolutionary and a sense of time and distance -- Marshall moves up the ladder in Virginia and the world shakes as America comes to be -- Marshall on the national and international stage and a small cadre makea large nation -- Marshall was almost president, so who else came close? -- The necessity of the American myth -- From XYZ to Marbury -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press, An imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARSHALL, JOHN STRThomas, Evan
Summary: "Based on exclusive interviews and access to the Supreme Court archives, this is the intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of America's first female Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor--by New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas. She was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her sights on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'CONNOR, SANDRA DAY THOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B OCONNOR THOGinsburg, Ruth Bader
Summary: "In the fall of 2019, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited the University of California, Berkeley School of Law to deliver the first annual Herma Hill Kay Memorial Lecture in honor of her friend, the late Herma Hill Kay, with whom Ginsburg had coauthored the very first casebook on sex-based discrimination in 1974. Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue is the result of a period of collaboration...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GINSBURG, RUTH BADER GINBernhardt, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BERPack, Michael
Summary: Although Clarence Thomas remains a controversial figure, few know him beyond his contentious confirmation battle. But beyond the headlines, Thomas' life is a classic American tale; born poor in the segregated South, only to become one of the most influential justices in the highest court in the land. In the follow-up to the wildly successful documentary by the same name, Created Equal builds on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMAS, CLARENCE PACSummary: For 191 years, the Supreme Court of the United States was populated only by men. When President Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor as the first female justice in 1981, the announcement dominated the news. Time Magazine's cover proclaimed, 'Justice at Last,' and she received unanimous Senate approval.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SANBiskupic, Joan
Summary: "Nine Black Robes displays the inner maneuverings among the Supreme Court justices that led to the seismic reversal of Roe v. Wade and a half century of women's abortion rights. Biskupic details how rights are stripped away or, alternatively as in the case of gun owners, how rights are expanded. Today's bench--with its conservative majority--is desperately ideological. The Court has been headed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 347.73 BISFranze, Anthony J.
Summary: "A Washington, D.C. lawyer and a frequent major media commentator on the Supreme Court, Anthony Franze delivers a high-stakes story of family, power, loss and revenge set within the insular world of the highest court of our country. Among Washington D.C. power players, everyone has secrets they desperately want to keep hidden, including Sean Serrat, a Supreme Court lawyer. Sean transformed his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRACharles, Tami
Summary: "Discover the incredible story of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who followed her childhood dream of becoming a lawyer and eventually became the first Black woman to sit on the US Supreme Court in this picture book biography."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JACCameron, Marc
Summary: "In Washington, DC, Supreme Court Justice Charlotte Morehouse prepares for a trip to Alaska, unaware that a killer is waiting to take his revenge--by livestreaming her death to the world. In Anchorage, Alaska, Deputy US Marshals Arliss Cutter and Lola Teariki are assigned to security detail at a judicial conference in Fairbanks. Lola is tasked with guarding Justice Townsend's teenaged daughter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMOrtiz, Victoria
Summary: A biography that discusses the life and career of the popular icon and fiercely principled Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, providing dramatic accounts of her landmark cases.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019