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Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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. She writes of her precarious childhood and the refuge she...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The chief justice of the Supreme Court is about to be defamed by a powerful gossip website called Slander Sheet, which specializes in dirt on celebs and politicians. Their top reporter has written an exposé claiming that he had liaisons with an escort, a young woman willing to appear on video and tell the world her salacious yet convincing tale. But the chief justice is not without formidable allies, and his greatest supporter is determined to stop...
3) Breakneck
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 while Cutter provides counter-surveillance. It's a simple,...
4) Game over
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Sisterhood Believes In Promises Kept
With yet another successful assignment behind them, the ladies of the Sisterhood have enjoyed a relaxing break together and celebrated the wedding of Myra and Charles on Big Pine Mountain. But as soon as the newlyweds return from their shortened honeymoon, they are hit with some exciting yet unsettling news. . .
It seems their dear ally Lizzie Fox, recently ensconced as Chief White House Counsel, is rumored...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xvi, 476 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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. 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 Stanford University. When she graduated near the top of her class at law school in 1952, no firm would even interview...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xviii, 723 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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, comprehensive, revelatory biography, Jane De Hart explores the central...
8) RBG
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a lengthy legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But the unique personal journey of her rise to the nation's highest court has been largely unknown, even to some of her biggest fans - until now. RBG explores Ginsburg's life and career.
Author
Series
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the best-selling author of My Weird School: a new entry in the cheerful and engaging biography series centered on high-interest historic figures. Did you know that Ruth Bader Ginsburg failed her driving test five times? Or that her real name was Joan? Bet you didn't know that she liked paddle boarding, white water rafting, and riding elephants! She even had a praying mantis named after her. Siblings Paige and Turner have collected some of the...
10) Sonia Sotomayor
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
52 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A chapter book biography of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, part of the She Persisted series"--
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 x 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sonia Sotomayor learned to speak Spanish before she spoke English. And she had barely started walking before she learned to run. Full of energy and dedication, Sonia read every book she could get her hands on as a child--and she especially loved detective stories. Those stories inspired her to become a lawyer, then New York City's first Hispanic federal judge, and finally, the third woman and first Hispanic Justice of the United States Supreme Court"...
Author
Publisher
Crown Forum
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 420 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 political stripes. Over his career, Justice Scalia delivered...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
viii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The author of The Butler presents a revelatory biography of the first African-American Supreme Court justice--one of the giants of the civil rights movement, and one of the most transforming Supreme Court justices of the 20th century"--Novelist.
Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to deny in the courts and in the streets....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 850L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"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."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Rise
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
AD 620L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
375 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Justice Anthony Kennedy slipped out of the Supreme Court building on June 27, 2018, and traveled incognito to the White House to inform President Donald Trump that he was retiring, setting in motion a political process that his successor, Brett Kavanaugh, would denounce three months later as a 'national disgrace' and a 'circus.' [This book], the definitive insider's account of Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court, is based on extraordinary...
17) Marshall
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 59 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career defining cases.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the second female Supreme Court justice describes how she faced discrimination because of her gender throughout her education and working life, and how her fight for equality changed the way the law dealt with women's rights.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The embodiment of American conservative thought and jurisprudence, Antonin Scalia cast an expansive shadow over the Supreme Court for three decades. His unexpected death in February 2016 created a vacancy that precipitated a pitched political fight. That battle would not only change the tilt of the court, but the course of American history. It would help decide a presidential election, fundamentally alter longstanding protocols of the United States...