The Annotated Bibliography: P
256 of 5159 works · revised October 26, 2026
By author, the way the By Author PDF is ordered. What the notes and access labels mean is on the bibliography’s front page.
Pacelle, Richard L., Jr. The Supreme Court in a Separation of Powers System: The Nation's Balance Wheel. Routledge, 2015.
Richard Pacelle of Tennessee reads the Court as part of an integrated political system rather than an isolated institution, with chapters on its dealings with the presidency, Congress, the bureaucracy, opinion, interest groups and the lower courts; Routledge, 2015, 326 pages. Not read.
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Pacelle, Richard L., Jr. The Transformation of the Supreme Court's Agenda: From the New Deal to the Reagan Administration. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991.
What the Court chose to hear and how that changed between the New Deal and Reagan, 264 illustrated pages from Westview in 1991 in the Transforming American Politics series, the companion in subject to Perry's Deciding to Decide. Search-only at HathiTrust. Not read.
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Pacelle, Richard L., Jr., Brett W. Curry, and Bryan W. Marshall. Decision Making by the Modern Supreme Court. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Richard Pacelle, Brett Curry and Bryan Marshall's attempt to join the legal, attitudinal and strategic models into one account of how the Court decides, tested across decisions from Brown to 2000; Cambridge, June 2011, 278 pages. Not read.
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Pack, Michael, and Mark Paoletta. Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2022.
The book of the documentary, published by Regnery on 21 June 2022 and built from dozens of hours of interviews Michael Pack recorded with Thomas and his wife for the 2020 film of the same name, with historical documents and conversations with family and associates around them.
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Pack, Michael, and Mark Paoletta. Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2022.
The book edition of the 2020 documentary — thirty-plus hours of Thomas interviews including material the film never used.
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Paddock, Lisa. Facts about the Supreme Court of the United States. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1996.
A reference book from a reference publisher: 569 illustrated pages from H. W. Wilson in 1996, with a historical overview by Paul Barrett. No copy found online. Not read.
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Padgett, George E. “Voting Record of Justice Stewart on First Amendment Cases.” Journalism Quarterly 59 (Winter 1982): 554-559.
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Padover, Saul K. “Political Ideas of John Marshall.” Social Research 26 (Spring 1959): 47-70.
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Padway, Joseph A. “Brandeis and Labor.” American Federationist 48 (December 1941): 12-13, 32.
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Painter, Richard W. Conduct Unbecoming: The Ethics Crisis at the Supreme Court and How Legitimacy Can Be Restored. New York: Oxford University Press, 2026.
Richard Painter of Minnesota on the undisclosed gifts and unrecused conflicts of the 2020s and the fixes he proposes, disclosure rules, an ethics lawyer for the Court and a judicial inspector general; Oxford, June 2026, 208 pages. Not read.
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Palmer, Ben W. Marshall and Taney: Statesmen of the Law. New York: Russell and Russell, 1966.
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Palmer, Ben W. “Hobbes, Holmes, Hitler.” American Bar Association Journal 31 (November 1945): 569-573.
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Palmer, Ben W. “The Totalitarianism of Mr. Justice Holmes: Another Chapter in the Controversy.” American Bar Association Journal 37 (November 1951): 809-811.
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Palmer, Jan and Saul Brenner. “Determinants of the Amount of Time Taken by the Vinson Court to Process its FullOpinion Cases.” Journal of Supreme Court History 15 (1990): 142–151.
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Palmer, Jan. The Vinson Court Era: The Supreme Court's Conference Votes: Data and Analysis. New York: AMS Press, 1990.
The Vinson Court's conference votes turned into a dataset: 392 pages from AMS in 1990, data and analysis together, in the AMS Studies in Social History series. The votes it counts are the ones taken behind the conference door rather than the ones published, which is a different universe from the decided cases the Supreme Court Database records. Search-only at HathiTrust. Not read.
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Palmer, Jan. “Senate Confirmation of Appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court.” Review of Social Economy 41 (October 1983): 152-162.
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Palmer, Larry I. “Two Perspectives on Structuring Discretion: Justices Stewart and White on the Death Penalty.” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 70 (Summer 1979): 194-213.
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Paludan, Phillip. “Taney, Lincoln and the Constitutional Conversation.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21 (Special Edition 1996): 22–35.
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Pannick, David. “Judges and Brothers.” Encounter 55 (October 1980): 29-30.
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Papenfuse, Edward C., et al., eds. A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635–1789 (2 vols.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979–85.
The strongest reference source for Johnson's long Maryland career: offices, legislative activity, family connections, business interests, and property, reconstructed from unusually rich state records.
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Paper, Lewis J. & Peter Scott Campbell. “Louis D. Brandeis on the Supreme Court: An Oral History.” Journal of Supreme Court History 50, no. 3 (2025): 199–232.
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Paper, Lewis J. Brandeis: An Intimate Biography. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1983.
A readable one-volume life for the general reader, drawing on the family and the papers — warmer and less analytical than Strum or Urofsky, and a good narrative entry point.
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Paradise, Scott H. Men of the Old School. Andover, MA: Phillips Academy, 1956.
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Parker, Cortlandt. Mr. Justice Bradley of the United States Supreme Court. Newark, NJ: Advertiser Printing House, 1893.
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Parker, Cortlandt. “Address on Governor William Paterson.” New Jersey Historical Society Proceedings 5 (October 1920): 230-236.
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Parker, Cortlandt. “Alexander Hamilton and William Paterson.” American Bar Association Reports 3 (August 18, 19, 20, 1880): 149-166.
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Parker, Cortlandt. “Justice Joseph P. Bradley.” American Review 28 (July/August 1894): 481-509.
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Parker, Cortlandt. “Mr. Justice Bradley of the United States Supreme Court.” New Jersey Historical Society Proceedings 12 (1893): 143-177.
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Parker, Cortlandt. “William Paterson.” In Great American Lawyers, vol. 1, edited by William D. Lewis, 223-245. Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Company, 1907.
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Parker, John J. “Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson: Meeting the Challenge to Law and Order.” American Bar Association Journal 41 (1955): 324.
A tribute in the American Bar Association Journal of April 1955, eighteen months after his death, by John J. Parker.
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Parker, John J. “Harlan F. Stone: A Liberal in the American Pattern.” Syracuse Law Review 1 (Spring 1949): 2-8.
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Parrish, Michael E. Felix Frankfurter and His Times: The Reform Years. New York: Free Press, 1982.
The standard scholarly biography of the making of the man — Vienna, the Lower East Side, Harvard Law, the 'House of Truth,' Sacco and Vanzetti, and the New Deal brain trust.
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Parrish, Michael E. The Hughes Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002.
The Hughes Court in the ABC-CLIO handbook form, 342 illustrated pages from 2002 in four parts: the Court and the period, the justices, major decisions, legacy and impact. No copy found online. Not read.
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Parrish, Michael E. “Justice Douglas and the Rosenberg Case: A Rejoinder.” Cornell Law Review 70 (August 1985): 1048-1057.
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Parry-Giles, Trevor. The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, and Politics in the Supreme Court Confirmation Process. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2006.
Trevor Parry-Giles on the rhetoric of contested confirmations, studying Brandeis, Hughes, Parker, Marshall, Haynsworth, Carswell and Bork with discussion of Thomas, Ginsburg and Breyer, and arguing that the rancorous public hearing is a twentieth-century invention; Michigan State University Press, March 2006, 267 pages, winner of the 2007 Kohrs-Campbell Prize in Rhetorical Criticism. Not read.
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Parzen, Herbert. Brandeis and the Balfour Declaration. New York: Herzl Press, 1963.
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Paschal, Joel F. Mr. Justice Sutherland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956.
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Paschal, Joel F. “Man against the State: The Ordeal of George Sutherland.” Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1948.
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Paschal, Joel F. “Mr. Justice Stewart on the Court of Appeals.” Duke Law Journal 1959 (Summer 1959): 325-340.
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Paschal, Joel Francis. Mr. Justice Sutherland: A Man Against the State. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1951.
The standard biography, and a thoughtful one.
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Paterson, Isabel. “The Riddle of Chief Justice Taney in the Dred Scott Decision.” Georgia Review 3 (Summer 1949): 192-203.
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Paterson, T. Eliot. “History of Three Chief Justices of the United States Supreme Court.” Law Student's Helper 5 (September 1897): 321-323; (October 1897): 353-355; (November 1897): 383-385.
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Paterson, William. “Extracts from Unpublished Letters of Governor Paterson.” Somerset County Historical Quarterly 3 (January/April 1913): 1-6, 83-88.
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Patterson, C. Perry. “Jurisprudence of Oliver Wendell Holmes.” Minnesota Law Review 31 (March 1947): 355-370.
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Patterson, Edwin W. “Cardozo's Philosophy of Law.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 88 (November 1939): 71-91; (December 1939): 156-176.
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Patterson, Edwin W. “Mr. Justice Brandeis: Seventy-five Years Old.” Nation 133 (November 1931): 513-514.
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Paul, Arnold M. Conservative Crisis and the Rule of Law: Attitudes of Bar and Bench, 1887-1895. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1960.
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Paul, Joel Richard. Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times. New York: Riverhead Books, 2018.
The most vivid of the recent trade lives, especially on the diplomatic years.
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Paul, Randolph E. “Mr. Justice Black and Federal Taxation.” Yale Law Journal 65 (February 1956): 495-528.
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Paulding, William I. “A Contribution to History.” Lippincott's Magazine 2 (December 1868): 623-626.
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Peabody, Andrew P. “Joseph Story.” In Harvard Reminiscences, by Andrew P. Peabody, 56-60. Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1888.
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Pearce, Catherine O. The Louis D. Brandeis Story. New York: Crowell, 1970.
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Pearson, Drew, and Robert S. Allen. The Nine Old Men. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1936.
The syndicated columnists' assault on the Hughes Court, 325 pages from Doubleday, Doran in 1936, followed the next year by the 57-page Nine Old Men at the Crossroads; Da Capo reprinted both together in 1974. Search-only at HathiTrust. Not read.
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Pearson, Drew. The Nine Old Men at the Crossroads. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1937.
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Peck, Robert S. “Can Presidents Pack the Court? The Answer Is Yes, No, and Maybe.” Update 8 (Spring 1984): 12-15.
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Pederson, William D., and Norman W. Provizer, eds. Great Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Ratings and Case Studies. New York: Peter Lang, 1993.
Essays from a 1990 conference at Louisiana State University in Shreveport on rating the justices, with case studies; Peter Lang, 1993, xix and 388 pages. Borrow it at the Internet Archive; not read.
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Pedrick, Willard H. “From Congress to the Court of Appeals.” Northwestern University Law Review 49 (1954): 54.
The judge between the House and the war, by a Northwestern law professor, opening on the scene in which Roosevelt offered him the bench: 'After fourteen years in Congress and eight campaigns, Congressman Fred M. Vinson went to the White House in the late Fall of 1937 and was asked by President Roosevelt how he would like to be a Judge in the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.'
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Peebles, Thomas H. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter and the Nixon Court: Some Reflections on Contemporary Judicial Conservatism.” American University Law Review 24 (Fall 1974): 1-90.
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Peladeau, Marius B. “Predilections of Supreme Court Justices: A Quarter-Century Analysis of U.S. Supreme Court Rate Decisions Involving Public Utility Companies, With Special Attention to Justices Black and Douglas.” Public Utilities Fortnightly 71 (January 17, 1963): 32-39.
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Pellew, George. John Jay (American Statesmen series). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1890.
The standard nineteenth-century life, from the American Statesmen series — the biography that fixed Jay's reputation for two generations before Monaghan.
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Penfold, John B. “The Verdict Is 'Guilty.'” U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 72 (May 1946): 675-679.
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“Pensions for Judges.” Albany Law Journal 66 (February 1904): 33.
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Pepper, George W. “Charles Evans Hughes: Publication of New Biography Is Major Event.” American Bar Association Journal 38 (March 1952): 200-204, 262.
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Pepper, George W. “Owen J. Roberts: The Man.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 104 (December 1955): 372-379.
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Pepper, George W. “Owen Josephus Roberts.” American Philosophical Society Yearbook 1955 (December/January 1955): 494-502.
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Peppers, Todd C. Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006.
Todd Peppers's study of the law clerk as an institution, from Horace Gray's first clerk in the 1880s onward, built on interviews with fifty-three former clerks, correspondence with ninety more and conversations with justices including Scalia, with a foreword by Robert M. O'Neil; Stanford, 2006, 310 pages. Not read.
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Peppers, Todd C. “Arthur A. Thomas: A Hero of a Valet.” Journal of Supreme Court History 46, no. 3 (2021): 271–279.
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Peppers, Todd C. “Birth of an Institution: Horace Gray and the Lost Law Clerks.” Journal of Supreme Court History 32, no. 3 (2007): 229–248.
Gray's most durable legacy isn't an opinion — he invented the Supreme Court law clerk, hiring Harvard graduates at his own expense starting in 1882.
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Peppers, Todd C. “Isaiah and His Young Disciples: Justice Brandeis and His Law Clerks.” Journal of Supreme Court History 34, no. 1 (2009): 75–97.
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Peppers, Todd C. “Justice Hugo Black and His Law Clerks: Match-Making and Match Point.” Journal of Supreme Court History 36, no. 1 (2011): 48–61.
Peppers on how Black chose clerks and what he did with them — the most useful short piece written about him since the papers opened, and a corrective to a shelf otherwise dominated by doctrine and biography.
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Peppers, Todd C. “The Chief Justice and the Page: Earl Warren, Charles Bush, and the Promise of Brown v. Board of Education.” Journal of Supreme Court History 47, no. 1 (2022): 27–43.
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Peppers, Todd C. “William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. : Breaking the Color Barrier at the U. S. Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 33, no. 3 (2008): 353370.
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Peppers, Todd C., and Artemus Ward, eds. In Chambers: Stories of Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2012.
The first of Todd Peppers's two collections on the law clerks, edited with Artemus Ward: how clerks are chosen and what they do, from the late nineteenth century on, with personal accounts and the stories of the first Black and the first woman clerk; Virginia, 2012, 445 pages. Not read.
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Peppers, Todd C., and Clare Cushman, eds. Of Courtiers and Kings: More Stories of Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2015.
The second collection, edited by Todd Peppers with Clare Cushman: essays on the justices who had themselves clerked, Breyer, Kagan, Rehnquist, Roberts and Stevens, and on families in which parent and child both clerked; Virginia, December 2015, 448 pages. Not read.
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Peppers, Todd C., Ira Brad Matesky, Elizabeth R. Williams, Jessica Winn. “Clerking for “God’s Godfather: Chauncey Belknap’s Year with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.” Journal of Supreme Court History 43, no. 3 (2018): 257–293.
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Peppers, Todd. “Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller and the Great Mustache Debate of 1888.” Journal of Supreme Court History 45, no. 2 (2020): 140–150.
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Peretti, Terri Jennings. Partisan Supremacy: How the GOP Enlisted Courts to Rig America's Election Rules. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2020.
Terri Jennings Peretti of Santa Clara on voter identification, gerrymandering, campaign finance and Voting Rights Act preclearance as one project, through Crawford, Citizens United, McCutcheon and Shelby County; Kansas, November 2020, 374 pages. Not read.
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Perino, Michael A. “Justice Scalia: Standing, Environmental Law, and the Supreme Court.” Boston Affairs Law Review 15 (Fall 1987): 135-179.
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Perkins, Charles E. “Celebration of John Marshall Day in Connecticut.” Yale Law Journal 10 (March 1901): 187-203.
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Perkins, Dexter. Charles E. Hughes:... A Statesman of the First Order. Manhasset, NY: Channel Press, 1960.
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Perkins, Dexter. Charles Evans Hughes and American Democratic Statesmanship. Boston: Little, Brown, 1956.
The compact one-volume life, in Little, Brown's Library of American Biography, by the diplomatic historian Dexter Perkins.
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Perlin, Adam A. "The Impeachment of Samuel Chase: Redefining Judicial Independence." Rutgers Law Review 62, no. 3 (2010).
The most detailed modern legal study of the impeachment: the eight articles, the competing constitutional theories, the Senate votes, and the uncertain meaning of judicial independence in the early republic.
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Perry, Barbara A. A “Representative” Supreme Court? The Impact of Race, Religion, and Gender on Appointments. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
A scholarly study of representation in appointments — the Catholic and Jewish "seats," the first Black justice and the first woman — arguing that religion's weight faded as those groups entered the mainstream.
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Perry, Barbara A. The Priestly Tribe: The Supreme Court’s Image in the American Mind. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999.
Why the Court's prestige has held while Congress's and the presidency's eroded: the marble palace, the symbols of impartiality, the distance kept from reporters, and what the public actually knows.
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Perry, Barbara A. “Ambition Counteracting Ambition: Separation of Powers in Supreme Court Appointments.” Journal of Supreme Court History 37, no. 2 (2012): 134–147.
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Perry, Barbara A. “Jefferson’s Legacy to the Supreme Court: Freedom of Religion.” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 2 (2006): 181–198.
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Perry, Benjamin F. “John Jay.” In Biographical Sketches of Eminent American Statesmen, by Benjamin F. Perry, 393-402. Philadelphia: Ferree Press, 1887.
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Perry, Benjamin F. “John Marshall.” In Biographical Sketches of Eminent American Statesmen, by Benjamin F. Perry, 467-477. Philadelphia: Ferree Press, 1887.
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Perry, Benjamin F. “John Rutledge.” In Biographical Sketches of Eminent American Statesmen, by Benjamin F. Perry, 254-258. Philadelphia: Ferree Press, 1887.
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Perry, Benjamin F. “Oliver Ellsworth.” In Biographical Sketches of Eminent American Statesmen, by Benjamin F. Perry, 403-409. Philadelphia: Ferree Press, 1887.
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Perry, H. W., Jr. Deciding to Decide: Agenda Setting in the United States Supreme Court. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.
How the Court chooses what to hear: 316 pages from Harvard in 1991 on the certiorari process, built on interviews with justices and clerks, and catalogued under judicial process research and certiorari. HathiTrust holds it search-only and no free copy was found. Not read.
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Perry, James R. and James M. Buchanan. “Admission to the Supreme Court Bar, 1790-1800: A Case Study of Institutional Change.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1983: 10–16.
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Perry, James R. “Supreme Court Appointments, 1789-1801: Criteria, Presidential Style, and the Press of Events.” Journal of the Early Republic 6 (Winter 1986): 371-410.
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Perry, R. Christopher, and John L. Carmichael, Jr. “Have Four-Vote Certiorari Cases Been Unimportant? Qualitative and Quantitative Tests of Justice Stevens' Argument.” Cumberland Law Review 16 (1985/1986): 419-446.
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Perry, Ralph B. “The Common Enemy: Early Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and William James.” Atlantic 156 (September 1935): 293-303.
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Pertschuk, Michael, and Wendy Schaetzel. The People Rising: The Campaign against the Bork Nomination. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1989.
The campaign against Bork told by its own side, 317 pages with plates from Thunder's Mouth Press in 1989; the pro-Bork account is on this shelf beside it. No copy found online. Not read.
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Peters, Christopher J., ed. Precedent in the United States Supreme Court. Dordrecht: Springer, 2014.
Eleven essays edited by Christopher Peters of Baltimore on how the Court establishes durable precedent, when and why it overrules itself, and what the normative foundations of stare decisis are; Springer, February 2014, 231 pages, in the Ius Gentium series. Not read.
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Peters, Shawn Francis. “Re-hearing ‘Fighting Words’: Chaplinksy v. New Hampshire in Retrospect.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 3 (1999): 282–297.
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Peters, Todd C. & Mary Crockett Hall. “‘Destructive to Judicial Dignity’: The Poetry of Melville Weston Miller.” Journal of Supreme Court History 46, no. 2 (2021): 148–161.
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Peterson, Gary. “A Closer Look at Allen.” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 1 (2017): 28–48.
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Pettengill, Samuel B. “Tribute to Justice Holmes.” Indiana Law Journal 10 (April 1935): 411-413.
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Pettit, William. “Justice Byrnes and the U.S. Supreme Court.” South Carolina Law Quarterly 6 (June 1954): 423-428.
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Pew, Mary J. “An Analysis of Justice Robert H. Jackson's Interpretation of the Religious Clauses of the First Amendment.” Ph.D. diss., Fordham University, 1961.
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Pfeffer, Leo. This Honorable Court: A History of the United States Supreme Court. Boston: Beacon Press, 1965.
A one-volume history of the Court in 470 pages from Beacon in 1965, catalogued under the Court's history; Pfeffer's other work on these pages of Rutland is on religion and the Court. Reprinted by Octagon in 1978. No copy found online. Not read.
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Pfister, Jude M. The Creation of American Law: John Jay, Oliver Ellsworth and the 1790s Supreme Court. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019.
Jude Pfister on the making of an American legal system out of English common law after 1787 and on the Court's first decade under Jay and Ellsworth, with Iredell, Bushrod Washington and James Wilson around them; McFarland, 2019, 280 pages. Not read.
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Phelps, Edward J. Chief Justice Marshall and the Constitutional Law of His Time: An Address before the American Bar Association at Saratoga, August 21, 1879. Philadelphia: E. C. Malkley and Son, 1879.
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Phelps, Glenn A., and Timothy A. Martinez. “Brennan v. Rehnquist: The Politics of Constitutional Jurisprudence.” Gonzaga Law Review 22 (June 1987): 307-325.
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Phelps, Mary M. Kate Chase, Dominant Daughter: The Life Story of a Brilliant Woman and Her Famous Father. New York: Crowell, 1935.
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Phelps, Timothy M., and Helen Winternitz. Capitol Games: Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill, and the Story of a Supreme Court Nomination. New York: Hyperion, 1992.
By the Newsday reporter who broke the Hill allegations alongside NPR's Nina Totenberg: the whole nomination from the pick to the vote, including Angela Wright, subpoenaed and never called.
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“Philip P. Barbour: Obituary Notice.” Law Reporter 3 (April 1841): 465.
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Phillips, Harlan B., ed. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces. New York: Reynal, 1960.
Frankfurter talking — an oral-history memoir drawn from recorded conversations, ranging over his whole life in his own vivid, name-dropping voice.
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Piatt, Donn. Memories of the Men Who Saved the Union. New York: Belford, Clarke, 1887.
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Piatt, Donn. “Edwin M. Stanton.” North American Review 142 (May 1886): 466-477; (June 1886): 540-548.
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Piatt, Donn. “Salmon P. Chase.” North American Review 143 (December 1886): 599-614.
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Pierce, Carl A. “Vacancy on the Supreme Court: The Politics of Judicial Appointment.” Tennessee Law Review 39 (Summer 1972): 555-612.
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Pierce, James O. “James Wilson as a Jurist.” American Law Review 38 (January/February 1904): 44-60.
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Pike, James S. Chief Justice Chase. New York: Powers, Macgowan, and Slipper, 1873.
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Pillsbury, Albert E. “John Marshall Harlan.” Twentieth Century Magazine 5 (November 1911): 69-71.
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Pizzi, William T. The Supreme Court's Role in Mass Incarceration. Routledge, 2021.
William Pizzi of Colorado argues that constitutionalised criminal procedure made trials so complicated and costly that plea bargaining displaced them, and that this did more for mass incarceration than sentencing law; Routledge, 2021, 160 pages. Not read.
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Plucknett, Theodore F. T. “Holmes, the Historian.” Harvard Law Review 44 (March 1931): 820-827.
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Pogrebin, Robin, and Kate Kelly. The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation. New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2019.
An investigative account of Kavanaugh's life and confirmation by two New York Times journalists, sympathetic to the questions raised about his conduct and candor.
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Pohlman, H. L. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Utilitarian Jurisprudence. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.
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Polenberg, Richard. Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court, and Free Speech. New York: Viking, 1987.
Abrams v. United States recovered in full: the Russian-Jewish anarchists jailed for leaflets against American intervention in Russia, their lives before and after, and the Holmes dissent that outlived the ruling.
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Polenberg, Richard. The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
A rich study of Cardozo's mind and the New York opinions that made his name, and the best companion to the great common-law cases.
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Polenberg, Richard. “Cardozo and the Criminal Law: Palko v. Connecticut Reconsidered.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21, no. 2 (1996): 92–105.
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Polenberg, Richard. “Freedom of Speech, 1919 and 1994: Justice Holmes After Seventy-Five Years.” Journal of Supreme Court History 19 (1994): 19–32.
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“Political Portrait of Levi Woodbury.” United States Magazine and Democratic Review 2 (July 1838): 385-408.
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“Political Portrait of William Strong.” United States Democratic Review 27 (September 1850): 269-275.
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Pollack, Ervin H., ed. The Brandeis Reader: The Life and Contributions of M. Justice Louis D. Brandeis. New York: Oceana Publications, 1956.
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Pollack, Jack Harrison. Earl Warren: The Judge Who Changed America. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1979.
The first full biography after Warren's death, by a journalist who interviewed him — journalistic and admiring, and now superseded by White and Cray, but a useful early portrait.
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Pollack, Louis H. and Sheldon Hackney. “Remarks on the 200th Anniversary of the Accession of John Marshall as Chief Justice.” Journal of Supreme Court History 27, no. 3 (2002): 216–221.
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Pollak, Louis H. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter: Judgement and the Fourteenth Amendment.” Yale Law Journal 67 (December 1957): 304-323.
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Pollak, Louis H. “Wiley Blount Rutledge: Profile of a Judge.” University of Illinois Law Forum 1979 (1979): 310-336.
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Pollard, Joseph P. Justice Brandeis and the Constitution. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930.
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Pollard, Joseph P. Mr. Justice Cardozo: A Liberal Mind in Action. New York: Yorktown Press, 1935.
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Pollard, Joseph P. “Justice Holmes Dissents.” Scribner's Magazine 85 (January 1929): 22-29.
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Pollitt, Basil H. Justice and the Justices. Daytona Beach, FL: College Publishing Company, 1954.
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Pollock, Frederick, John H. Wigmore, Morris R. Cohen, Felix Frankfurter, Eugene Ehrlich, Learned Hand, and Roscoe Pound. “A Symposium in Honor of Holmes, Dedicated to Him on His Seventy-fifth Birthday.” Harvard Law Review 29 (April 1916): 565-704.
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Pollock, Frederick. “Mr. Justice Holmes.” Harvard Law Review 44 (March 1931): 693-696.
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Pollock, Frederick. “Mr. Justice Holmes.” Harvard Law Review 48 (June 1935): 1277-1278.
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Pollock, Frederick. “Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: In Memoriam.” Law Quarterly Review 51 (April 1955): 263-264.
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Pollock, Paul K. “Judicial Libertarianism and Judicial Responsibilities: The Case of Justice William O. Douglas.” Ph.D. diss., Cornell University, 1968.
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Pollock, Seton. “Mr. Justice Holmes: Philosopher and Lawyer.” Law and Society Gazette 52 (August 1955): 349.
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Pomeroy, John N., Jr. “Stephen Johnson Field.” In Great American Lawyers, vol. 7, edited by William D. Lewis, 1-51. Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Company, 1907.
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Poole, Ernest. “Brandeis: A Remarkable Record of Unselfish Work Done in the Public Interest.” American Magazine 71 (February 1911): 481-493.
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Porter, Mary C. A. “John Marshall Harlan and the Laissez-Faire Court.” Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1970.
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Porter, Mary C. A. “John Marshall Harlan, the Elder, and Federal Common Law: A Lesson from History.” Supreme Court Review 1972 (1972): 103-134.
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“Portrait.” Scholastic 30 (March 6, 1937): 17.
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“Portrait.” World's Work 12 (May 1906): 7473.
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Porwancher, Andrew. “The Justice and the Dean: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and John Henry Wigmore.” Journal of Supreme Court History 37, no. 3 (2012): 266–282.
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Posner, Richard A. Cardozo: A Study in Reputation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Judge Richard Posner's provocative little book asks not whether Cardozo was great but why his reputation is — a cool, faintly deflating analysis of how a judge becomes a legend.
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Posner, Richard A., ed. The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
The best single-volume Holmes reader — Judge Richard Posner's selection from the letters, speeches, and opinions, with an incisive introduction that argues for Holmes as a great writer first.
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Post, A. C. “Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes.” McClure's Magazine 19 (October 1902): 523-524.
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Post, Charles Gordon, Jr. The Supreme Court and Political Questions. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1936.
The political questions doctrine in 145 pages from Johns Hopkins in 1936, number four of the fifty-fourth series of its Studies in Historical and Political Science, catalogued under political questions and judicial power. Reprinted by Da Capo in 1969. No copy found online. Not read.
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Post, Robert C. The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930 (Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court, vol. 10). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
The long-awaited Holmes Devise history of Taft's Court — three volumes, decades in the making, and now the definitive account of the era.
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Post, Robert. “Judicial Management and Judicial Disinterest: The Achievements and Perils of Chief Justice William Howard Taft.” Journal of Supreme Court History 23, no. 1 (1998): 50–78.
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Post, Robert. “Tensions in the Unitary Executive: How Taft Constructed the Epochal Opinion of Myers v. United States.” Journal of Supreme Court History 45, no. 2 (2020): 167–193.
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Post, Robert. “Willis Van Devanter: Chancellor of the Taft Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 45, no. 3 (2020): 287–307.
Post's companion piece explains the paradox: the justice who wrote the fewest opinions may have wielded the most influence, as Taft's indispensable inside counselor on certiorari, legislation, and Court management.
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Potter Stewart Papers (MS 1367). New Haven: Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, 1885–1986.
The papers, at Yale: 280.75 linear feet in 679 boxes, bulk 1958-1980, with the Supreme Court case files, the Sixth Circuit materials, correspondence, subject files and writings.
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Potter, Clarkson N. Roger Brooke Taney: The Annual Address Delivered before the American Bar Association at Its Fourth Annual Meeting. Philadelphia: E. E. Markley and Son, 1881.
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Potts, Margaret H. “Justice Murphy: A Reexamination.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1982 (1982): 57-65.
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Poucher, J. Wilson. “Smith Thompson, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.” Dutchess County Historical Society Yearbook 25 (1940): 26-29.
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Pound, Roscoe. “Dedicated to Holmes on His Eightieth Birthday.” Harvard Law Review 34 (March 1921): 449-453.
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Pound, Roscoe. “Judge Holmes' Contributions to the Science of Law.” Harvard Law Review 34 (March 1921): 449-453.
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Pound, Roscoe. “Supreme Court in Our System: A Review of Mr. Justice Jackson's Last Book.” American Bar Association Journal 42 (May 1956): 427-432.
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Powe, L. A., Jr. “(Re)introducing Wiley Rutledge.” Journal of Supreme Court History 29, no. 3 (2004): 337–345.
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Powe, L. A., Jr. “Evolution to Absolutism: Justice Douglas and the First Amendment.” Columbia Law Review 74 (April 1974): 371-411.
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Powe, L. A., Jr. “Senate and the Court: Questioning a Nominee.” Texas Law Review 54 (May 1976): 891-901.
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Powe, L. A., Jr. “The Obscenity Bargain: Ralph Ginzberg for Fanny Hill.” Journal of Supreme Court History 35, no. 2 (2010): 166–176.
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Powe, L. A., Jr. “Writing the First Draft of History: Anthony Lewis as Supreme Court Correspondent.” Journal of Supreme Court History 29, no. 2 (2004): 177–190.
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Powe, L.A., Jr. “October Term 1963: ‘The Second American Constitutional Convention.’” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 2 (2013): 194–206.
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Powe, Lucas A., Jr. The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2020. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2021.
Lucas Powe's argument that the Court is a majoritarian institution which identifies with the governing coalition of its era, in the expanded second edition of 2021, which adds two chapters on the years since 2008; Kansas, 504 pages, first published by Harvard in 2009 as 1789-2008. Not read.
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Powe, Lucas A., Jr. The Warren Court and American Politics. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.
The indispensable study of the Warren Court, read not as pure law but as national politics — the Court acting as a member of the governing coalition of its era.
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Powell, H. Jefferson. “The Compleat Jeffersonian: Justice Rehnquist and Federalism.” Yale Law Journal 91 (June 1982): 1317-1370.
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Powell, Lewis F., Jr. "Supreme Court Justices from Virginia." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 84, no. 2 (1976): 131–141.
A sitting justice, himself a Virginian, taking the measure of his state's contributions to the Court.
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Powell, Lewis F., Jr. The Powell Memorandum and the Corporate Turn. 1971.
Two months before Nixon nominated him, Powell wrote a confidential memorandum to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — 'Attack on the American Free Enterprise System' — urging business to organize, fund, and fight for its interests in politics, the academy, and the courts.
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Powell, Lewis F., Jr. “Attack on American Free Enterprise System.” Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee University School of Law (1971).
The memorandum itself, from the Powell Archives at Washington and Lee, in typescript and in the Chamber's printed version: the warning that the free-enterprise system was under attack and the program of organized response, written two months before the nomination and public a year after it.
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Powell, Lewis F., Jr. “George Wythe.” Journal of Supreme Court History 15 (1990): 25–28.
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Powell, Lewis F., Jr. “In Memoriam: Justice Potter Stewart.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1986: 5–7.
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Powell, Lewis F., Jr. “Myths and Misconceptions about the Supreme Court.” American Bar Association Journal 61 (November 1975): 1344-1347.
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Powell, Lewis F., Jr. “Of Politics and the Court.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1982 (1982): 23-26.
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Powell, Lewis F., Jr. “Stare Decisis and Judicial Restraint.” Journal of Supreme Court History 16 (1991): 13–19.
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Powell, Lewis F., Jr. “The Burger Court.” Washington and Lee Law Review 44 (Winter 1987): 1-10.
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Powell, Lewis F., Jr. “Three Giants of the Law.” American Bar Association Journal 50 (February 1964): 158-161.
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Powell, Lewis F., Jr. “What Really Goes on at the Supreme Court.” American Bar Association Journal 66 (June 1980): 721-723.
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Powell, Lewis F., Jr., and William H. Rehnquist. “What the Justices Are Saying.” American Bar Association Journal 62 (November 1976): 1454-1456.
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Powell, Richard R. “Harlan F. Stone.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 94 (July 1957): 355-364.
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Powell, Thomas R. “Charles Evans Hughes.” Political Science Quarterly 67 (June 1952): 161-172.
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Powell, Thomas R. “Holmes and Pollock.” Nation 152 (May 17, 1941): 589-590.
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Powell, Thomas R. “The Great Chief Justice: His Leadership in Judicial Review.” William and Mary Law Review 2 (July 1955): 72-93.
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Power, Garrett. “Advocates at Cross-Purposes: The Briefs on Behalf of Zoning in the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 22, no. 2 (1997): 79–87.
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Prager, Frank D. “The Changing Views of Justice Story on the Constitution of Patents.” American Journal of Legal History 4 (January 1960): 1-21.
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Prager, Frank D. “The Influence of Mr. Justice Story on American Patent Law.” American Journal of Legal History 5 (July 1961): 254-264.
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Prakash, Saikrishna Bangalore. “Double Duty across Magisterial Branches.” Journal of Supreme Court History 44, no. 1 (2019): 26–38.
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Pratt, Harry E. “David Davis, 1815-1856.” Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois, 1930.
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Pratt, Robert A. The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954-89. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992.
Richmond's schools from Brown to 1989, in the Carter G. Woodson Institute series, with Powell's years as chairman of the city school board read as a middle course between the factions that the author calls tokenism.
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Pratt, Walter F., Jr. The Supreme Court under Edward Douglass White, 1910–1921. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1999.
The standard modern monograph on White's chief justiceship — the Standard Oil 'rule of reason,' the wartime cases, and the Court's uneasy transit into the twentieth century.
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Prentice, E. Parmalee. “Chief Justice Marshall on Federal Regulations of Interstate Carriers.” Cleveland Bar Association Journal 5 (February 1905): 77-106.
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President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (Earl Warren, chairman). Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1964.
The argument about it is sixty years old; Moke's life, above, takes the critical side.
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Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States: Final Report. Washington, DC: Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, 2021.
The report President Biden's commission delivered in December 2021, co-chaired by Bob Bauer and Cristina Rodriguez: five chapters on the history of reform debates, the Court's size, term limits, its constitutional role and its procedures, setting out the arguments without recommending among them. iv and 288 pages, free at govinfo.
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Presser, Stephen B. "Samuel Chase: In Defense of the Rule of Law and Against the Jeffersonians." Vanderbilt Law Review 62, no. 2 (2009).
The strongest sustained modern reassessment of Chase as a jurist, contending that the impeachment has obscured his legal ability — his positions on judicial review, natural law, jury trials, treason, sedition, and federal judicial power.
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Presser, Stephen B. "The Verdict on Samuel Chase and His 'Apologist.'" In Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall. 1998.
The best concise, Court-centered introduction — Chase's Federalist understanding of judicial duty, his opinions in Hylton and Calder v. Bull, his circuit work, and the conduct that culminated in impeachment.
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Presser, Stephen B. The Original Misunderstanding: The English, the Americans, and the Dialectic of Federalist Jurisprudence. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1991.
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Presser, Stephen B. “A Tale of Two Judges: Richard Peters, Samuel Chase, and the Broken Promise of Federalist Jurisprudence.” New York University Law Review 73 (March/April 1978): 26-111.
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Presser, Stephen B., and Becky B. Hurley. “Saving God's Republic: The Jurisprudence of Samuel Chase.” University of Illinois Law Review 1984 (Summer 1984): 771-882.
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Pressman, Steven, and Frank Murphy. “ABA Votes New Youth Standards: Delegates Also Reject New Federal Courts, Delay Law School Action.” New Jersey Law Journal 105 (February 21, 1980): 17.
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Pressman, Steven. “Black's Books Give Glimpse of His Life.” New Jersey Law Journal 109 (January 14, 1982): 10.
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Prettyman, Barrett, Jr. Death and the Supreme Court. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961.
Capital cases told one at a time, 311 pages from Harcourt, Brace and World in 1961, catalogued under capital punishment; the shelf's first book on the death penalty by twelve years, and Goldberg used the same title for an article in 1987. No copy found online. Not read.
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Prettyman, E. Barrett Jr. “The Unconstitutional Conviction of ‘Baby.’” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1978: 68–76.
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Prettyman, E. Barrett, Jr. “Robert H. Jackson: ‘Solicitor General for Life.’” Journal of Supreme Court History 17 (1992): 75–85.
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Price, Barry A. “The Question of Diminution of Income for Justices and Judges of the Supreme Court and the Inferior Courts of the United States.” Journal of Supreme Court History 32, no. 3 (2007): 276–281.
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Price, Monroe. “White: A Justice of Studied Unpredictability.” National Law Journal 2 (February 18, 1980): 24.
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Price, Polly J. “A ‘Chinese Wall’ at the Nation’s Border: Justice Stephen Field and the Chinese Exclusion Case.” Journal of Supreme Court History 43, no. 1 (2018): 7–26.
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Price, Polly J. “Mapp v. Ohio Revisited: A Law Clerk’s Diary.” Journal of Supreme Court History 35, no. 1 (2010): 54–70.
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Prickett, Morgan D. “Stanley Forman Reed: Perspectives on a Judicial Epitaph.” Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 8 (Winter 1981): 343-369.
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Pringle, Henry F. The Life and Times of William Howard Taft (2 vols.). New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939.
The standard biography, by the author of the Pulitzer-winning Theodore Roosevelt life.
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Pritchard, A. C., and Robert B. Thompson. A History of Securities Law in the Supreme Court. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Securities law at the Court from the New Deal on, in five eras from Roosevelt's triumph to Powell's counter-revolution, written from the justices' papers by A. C. Pritchard of Michigan and Robert Thompson of Georgetown; Oxford, March 2023, 384 pages. Not read.
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Pritchett, C. Herman. Civil Liberties and the Vinson Court. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954.
The Vinson years read for civil liberties, 296 pages from Chicago in 1954, the year after Vinson died, catalogued under civil rights. No copy found online. Not read.
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Pritchett, C. Herman. Congress versus the Supreme Court, 1957-1960. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1961.
Congress against the Court from 1957 to 1960, 168 pages from Minnesota in 1961, catalogued under legislative and judicial power together; Murphy's Congress and the Court covers the same fight from the other author's angle. Reprinted by Da Capo in 1973. No copy found online. Not read.
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Pritchett, C. Herman. The Roosevelt Court: A Study in Judicial Politics and Values, 1937-1947. New York: Macmillan, 1948.
The book usually credited with first tabulating the justices' votes and reading them as blocs: 314 pages with diagrams from Macmillan in 1948, a study in judicial politics and values by its subtitle, covering the ten terms from 1937. Reprinted by Octagon in 1963. No copy found online. Not read.
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Pritchett, C. Herman. “Justice Holmes and a Liberal Court.” Virginia Quarterly Review 24 (Winter 1948): 43-58.
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“Proceedings in the Supreme Court of the United States in Memory of Justice Brennan.” United States Reports 523 (1998).
The Court's own record of the May 22, 1998 memorial, and the fullest short life of him in print: the Bar's resolution runs from the father stoking the Ballantine furnaces to the ninetieth birthday in the courtroom, counts the work ('Justice Brennan authored 1,573 opinions: 533 opinions for the Court, 694 dissents, and 346 concurrences'), and records that 'In later years, Brennan was proud that the only Senate vote against his confirmation was cast by Senator McCarthy'; Rehnquist closes with 'a judge need not be a prima donna to have a lasting influence on our country's laws.'
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“Proceedings in the Supreme Court of the United States in Memory of Justice Byron R. White.” United States Reports 537 (2002).
The November 18, 2002 memorial: the Bar's resolution (the beet fields 'from the time they could wield a hoe,' the Cotton Bowl, the Freedom Rides, 'To decide cases'), Solicitor General Olson and Attorney General Ashcroft, and Chief Justice Rehnquist's response, which calls him 'the 93rd Justice to serve on this Court and the first to have served as a Supreme Court law clerk.'
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“Proceedings in the Supreme Court of the United States in Memory of Justice Goldberg.” United States Reports 498 (1990).
The October 15, 1990 memorial: the Bar's resolution (Northwestern first in his class, the bar 'by special dispensation' before he was twenty-one, the 1955 merger), Solicitor General Starr and Attorney General Thornburgh, and Chief Justice Rehnquist's response, which says that of all his public roles 'he liked that of Associate Justice most of all.'
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“Proceedings in the Supreme Court of the United States in Memory of Justice Marshall.” United States Reports 510 (1993).
The November 15, 1993 memorial: Solicitor General Drew Days presenting the Bar's resolutions, Attorney General Janet Reno, and Chief Justice Rehnquist presiding, on the twenty-four years and the career before them.
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“Proceedings in the Supreme Court of the United States in Memory of Justice Potter Stewart.” United States Reports 479 (1986).
The Court's own record of the October 20, 1986 memorial: the Bar's resolution (which has him fearing that 'I know it when I see it' might become his epitaph, and offers an amendment), Solicitor General Charles Fried's account of a judge whose 'most consistent philosophy was his skepticism about the virtues of apparently consistent philosophies,' and Chief Justice Rehnquist's response, with the Reds, the fishing, and 'a superb craftsman of the written opinion.'
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“Proceedings in the Supreme Court of the United States in Memory of Mr. Chief Justice Vinson.” United States Reports 349 (1954).
The Court's memorial, and the fullest free life of him: the Bar's resolution from the birth 'on the banks of the Big Sandy River in the little town of Louisa in Eastern Kentucky' and the father who 'was the town jailer,' through Centre College, where 'he graduated as the top-ranking student in his class in 1909,' the old Ninth District, 'the Democratic eclipse of 1928,' the Emergency Court of Appeals and the Treasury, to its portrait of 'A man of good will, friendly, approachable'; and Warren's reply, that 'he rose from humble beginnings to the highest offices in all three Branches of our Government.'
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“Proceedings in the Supreme Court of the United States in Memory of Mr. Chief Justice Warren.” United States Reports 421 (1975).
The Court's own memorial: the Bar's resolution with its count of '52 years of official public service' and its 'three interrelated themes' of the Warren years (civil rights, 'democratic processes of self-government,' and 'an equitable system of criminal justice consistent with elemental human dignity'); Bork on a Chief whose respect for his colleagues' independence 'was a foundation for, rather than a relinquishment of, his leadership role'; Levi's 'He perceived the cases before him as human problems, not abstract issues'; and Burger on the lunch table where Warren laughed at the folklore about himself.
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“Proceedings in the Supreme Court of the United States in Memory of Mr. Justice Clark.” United States Reports 434 (1978).
The Court's own memorial, and the best short life in print that is free: the Bar's resolution from 'An outgoing Texan, in manner and spirit' through Clark & Clark, the war frauds referred by 'a junior Senator from Missouri, Harry Truman,' the loyalty program and the first Attorney General's list, the steel seizure vote against 'his "best client,"' Mapp 'despite his firm belief in strong law enforcement,' Schempp 'although a deeply religious man,' the retirement 'at the peak of his judicial powers,' the Federal Judicial Center and 'all eleven Circuits'; Bell on the Mapp sentences; and Burger's reply, the keel of the Court and 'Just call me Tom.'
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“Proceedings in the Supreme Court of the United States in Memory of Mr. Justice Harlan.” United States Reports 409 (1972).
The Court's own record of the October 24, 1972 memorial: the Bar's resolution with the life from James Harlan's naming of a son for John Marshall to the count of the work ('a total of 613 opinions, more than any other Justice during this period, of which 168 were opinions for the Court, 149 were concurring opinions and 296 were dissenting opinions'), its tribute to the output of a man 'severely handicapped by his impaired eyesight,' and the Chief Justice's description: 'His head and face had a sculptured aspect, the eyes deep set but very alert even in the years that his sight was failing.'
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“Proceedings in the Supreme Court of the United States in Memory of Mr. Justice Minton.” United States Reports 384 (1966).
The fullest life of Minton in print that is free: the Bar's resolution runs from 'the hill hamlet of Georgetown' through the jobs at eight, Taft's classroom at Yale, the show-cause method at the Public Service Commission, the seat next to Truman, the 1937 plan and 'the Constitution of 1937 and not the Constitution of 1936,' the anti-lynching sentence, Willkie and Willis in 1940, 'By the way, Shay,' the two hundred Seventh Circuit opinions and the anemia of 1943; and Warren's reply reads the letter to the Judiciary Committee, 'when I refereed games I had no team,' and counts him 'the eighty-seventh Justice of this Court.'
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Proctor, L. B. “Jefferson's Contempt of Chief Justice Marshall's Opinions.” Albany Law Journal 44 (October 24, 1891): 342-343.
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Proctor, L. B. “John Jay and Other Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.” Michigan Law Journal 5 (May 1896): 153-164.
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Proctor, L. B. “Rufus W. Peckham.” Albany Law Journal 55 (May 1, 1897): 286-288.
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Provine, Doris Marie. Case Selection in the United States Supreme Court. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
How cases are chosen, 214 pages from Chicago in 1980 on the certiorari process, catalogued under judicial review and judicial process; the study Perry's Deciding to Decide answered eleven years later. No copy found online. Not read.
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Pruden, Durward. “The Opposition of the Press to the Ascension of Hugo Black to the Supreme Court of the United States.” Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1945.
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Przybyszewski, Linda. The Republic According to John Marshall Harlan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
The finest intellectual biography — the book to read once Canellos has hooked you.
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Przybyszewski, Linda. “Scarlet Fever, Stanley Matthews, and the Cincinnati Bible War.” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 3 (2017): 256–274.
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Przybyszewski, Linda. “The Dissents of John Marshall Harlan I.” Journal of Supreme Court History 32, no. 2 (2007): 152–161.
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Przybyszewski, Linda. “The Religion of a Jurist: Justice David J. Brewer and the Christian Nation.” Journal of Supreme Court History 25, no. 3 (2000): 228–242.
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Purcell, Edward A., Jr. Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism: The Historical Significance of a Judicial Icon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
A full scholarly assessment of the thirty years, in three parts, Scalia as public actor, as justice and as historical figure, testing the originalism against the decisions on federalism, separation of powers and individual rights, with chapters on Heller, Bush v. Gore and the federal judicial power.
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Purcell, Edward A., Jr. Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution: Erie, the Judicial Power, and the Politics of the Federal Courts in Twentieth-Century America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.
The major scholarly study of Brandeis the judge rather than Brandeis the crusader — built around Erie, the most technical and most revealing of his great opinions, and what it shows about his theory of federal judicial power.
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Purcell, Edward A., Jr. “Brandeis, Erie, and the New Deal ‘Constitutional Revolution.’” Journal of Supreme Court History 26, no. 3 (2001): 257–278.
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Purcell, Richard J. “Marshall v. Taney.” Catholic Education Review (1940): 160-170.
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Purcell, Richard J. “Mr. Justice Pierce Butler.” Catholic Educational Review 42 (April 1944): 193-215; (September 1944): 420-432.
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Pusey, Allen. “May 14, 1969: The Spectacular Fall of Abe Fortas.” ABA Journal (2004).
The resignation in a page, from the ABA's magazine: the Wolfson payments, the AU seminar money, the impeachment talk, and Warren's urging.
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Pusey, Merlo J. Charles Evans Hughes (2 vols.). New York: Macmillan, 1951.
The standard biography, and a deserving winner of the 1952 Pulitzer Prize.
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Pusey, Merlo J. Mr. Chief Justice Hughes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956.
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Pusey, Merlo J. The Supreme Court Crisis. New York: Macmillan, 1937.
The court-packing fight reported in its own year: 108 pages from Macmillan in 1937 by the man who would write the two-volume Hughes, catalogued under Roosevelt, political questions and judicial power. Reprinted by Da Capo in 1973 in its series on Roosevelt and the New Deal. Search-only at HathiTrust. Not read.
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Pusey, Merlo J. “Court Nominations and Presidential Cronyism.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1981 (1981): 68-73.
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Pusey, Merlo J. “Disability on the Court.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1979 (1979): 63-69, 100.
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Pusey, Merlo J. “Justice Roberts' 1937 Turnaround.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1983 (1983): 102-107.
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Pusey, Merlo J. “The Hughes Biography: Some Personal Reflections.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1984 (1984): 45-52.
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Pusey, Merlo J. “The Nomination of Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1982 (1982): 95-99.
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Pusey, Merlo J. “The ‘Judges’ Bill’ After a Century.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1976: 73–81.
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Putzel, Henry and Paul R. Baier. “Double Revolving Peripatetic Nitpicker.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1980: 10–24.
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