The Annotated Bibliography: T
160 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.
Taft, Charles P. “My Father the Chief Justice.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1977 (1977): 5-10.
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Taft, Helen H. Recollections of Full Years. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1914.
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Taft, Henry W. “Honorable B. N. Cardozo: He Does Not Remain Static.” Missouri Bar Journal 3 (February 1932): 23-24.
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Taft, Henry W. “One Aspect of Judge Cardozo's Noteworthy Career.” American Bar Association Journal 18 (March 1932): 172-173.
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Taft, William H. Address at Dedication of Alphonso Taft Hall. Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati, 1925.
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Taft, William H. Ethics in Service: Addresses Delivered in the Page Lecture Series, 1914, before the Senior Class of Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1915.
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Taft, William H. Four Aspects of Civic Duty. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906.
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Taft, William H. Political Issues and Outlooks: Speeches Delivered between August, 1908, and February, 1909. New York: Doubleday, 1909.
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Taft, William H. Present Day Problems: A Collection of Addresses Delivered on Various Occasions. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1908.
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Taft, William H. Presidential Addresses and State Papers of William Howard Taft. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1910.
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Taft, William H. Representative Government in the United States: Being the Opening Lecture of the James Stokes Lectureship on Politics, at New York University. New York: New York University Press, 1921.
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Taft, William H. Taft Papers on League of Nations. Edited by Theodore Marburg and Horace E. Flack. New York: Macmillan, 1920.
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Taft, William H. The Presidency: Its Duties, Its Powers, Its Opportunities, and Its Limitations: Three Lectures. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916.
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Taft, William H. The United States and Peace. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914.
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Taft, William H. The United States Supreme Court: The Prototype of a World Court. Baltimore: American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes, 1915.
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Taft, William H. “Criticism of the Federal Judiciary.” American Law Review 29 (September/October 1895): 641-674.
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Taft, William H. “Delays and Defects in the Enforcement of Law in This Country.” Albany Law Journal 70 (October 1908): 300-304.
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Taft, William H. “My Conception of the Presidency.” Collier's Weekly 41 (June 27, 1908): 7.
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Taft, William H. “Our New Secretary of War.” New England Magazine 35 (November 1903): 371-373.
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Taft, William H. “Possible and Needed Reforms in the Administration of Civil Justice in the Federal Courts.” American Law Review 57 (January 1923): 1-23.
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Taft, William H. “Power of the President.” Yale Review 4 (October 1914): 25-42.
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Taft, William H. “Presidency.” Independent 73 (November 21, 1912): 1196-1200.
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Taft, William H. “Proceedings on the Death of Chief Justice White.” United States Reports 257 (1921): v-xxix.
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Taft, William H. “Salmon P. Chase Memorial.” American Bar Association Journal 9 (June 1923): 348-352.
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Taft, William H. “The Boundaries between the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial Branches of the Government.” Yale Law Journal 25 (June 1916): 599-616.
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Taft, William H. “The Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court under the Act of February 13, 1925.” Yale Law Journal 35 (November 1925): 1-12.
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Taft, William H. “The Right of Private Property.” Michigan Law Journal 3 (August 1894): 215-233.
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Taft, William H. “The Supreme Court of the United States and Popular Self-Government.” Harvard Graduates' Magazine 23 (September 1914): 1-14.
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Taft, William H., and George B. Edwards. “Letters of Roommates: William H. Taft and George B. Edwards.” Edited by Walter P. Armstrong. American Bar Association Journal 34 (May 1948): 383-385.
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Taft, William H., and William J. Bryan. World Peace: A Written Debate between William Howard Taft and William Jennings Bryan. New York: Doran, 1917.
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Taft, William H., et al. “Appreciation of Edward Douglas White.” Loyola Law Journal 7 (April 1926): 61-94.
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Taft, William Howard. Liberty under Law: An Interpretation of the Principles of Our Constitutional Government. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1922.
The Chief Justice's short creed, sixty-four pages published by Yale for the University of Rochester in 1922, a year into the chief justiceship: the Constitution as a system of liberty under law, catalogued under civil rights and constitutional law.
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Taft, William Howard. Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers. New York: Columbia University Press, 1916.
Taft's own book on the presidency, written between his two great offices — the classic statement of the constitutionally modest 'stewardship' view of executive power, composed in pointed answer to Theodore Roosevelt's expansive one.
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Taft, William Howard. Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1913.
The first book of the Yale years, the lectures the ex-President gave in 1913 as he settled into New Haven: 308 pages from the Yale University Press on what popular government is and what threatens it, from a man who had just lost the 1912 election.
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Taft, William Howard. The Anti-trust Act and the Supreme Court. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1914.
Taft on the Sherman Act as the Court had read it, 152 pages from Harper & Brothers in 1914, written between the presidency and the chief justiceship; the Library of Congress catalogs it under the Court and antitrust law.
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Taggart, Joseph. Biographical Sketches of the Eminent American Patriots, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton; Roger Brooke Taney; William Starke Rosecrans; John Barry; Philip Henry Sheridan; and a Sketch of the Early History of Maryland. Kansas City, MO: Burton Company, 1907.
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Tanenhaus, David S., ed. Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.
About eleven hundred peer-reviewed articles on the law, the processes that generate it and the Court's history, with overview essays, a glossary, a thematic outline, documents and indexes, edited by David S. Tanenhaus of the UNLV law school with Kay P. Kindred, Felice Batlan, Alfred L. Brophy and Mark A. Graber; Macmillan Reference USA, Detroit, 2008, five volumes. Not read.
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Taney, Edward S. “Roger B. Taney.” Green Bag 7 (August 1895): 361-364.
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Taney, Mary F. “Roger Brooke Taney.” American Catholic Historical Society Records 11 (March 1900): 33-42.
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Taney, Roger B. Decision in the Merryman Case, upon the Writ of Habeas Corpus. Philadelphia: John Campbell, 1862.
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Taney, Roger B. “An Unpublished Letter by Roger B. Taney.” Maryland Historical Magazine 32 (1937): 225-227.
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Taney, Roger B. “Chief Justice Taney.” Albany Law Journal 7 (January 4, 1873): 2-5.
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Taney, Roger B. “Letter of Chief Justice Taney.” Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings 12 (1873): 445-447.
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Taney, Roger B. “Proceedings of Court Had upon the Death of Judge Story.” United States Reports 45 (1846): v-viii.
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Tang, Aaron. Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court, and How We Can Fix It. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023.
Aaron Tang of UC Davis argues the Court's disease is certainty rather than partisanship and prescribes a least-harm principle for its hardest cases; Yale, 2023, 328 pages. Not read.
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Targan, Donald G. “Justice Black, Inherent Coercion: An Analytical Study of the Standard for Determining the Voluntariness of a Confession.” American University Law Review 10 (January 1961): 53-61.
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Tate, C. Neal. Personal Attribute Models. American Political Science Review 75, no. 2 (1981): 355–367.
The high-water mark of the personal-attributes literature: seven variables — party, appointing president, prelaw education, elective office, region, judicial experience and prosecutorial experience, two of them used in only one of the two models — accounting for 70 to 90 per cent of the variance in postwar justices’ votes in split civil-liberties and economics cases.
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Taylor, Flavia M. "The Politician and Judicial Career of Henry Baldwin." Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 24 (1941).
The fullest scholarly article ever devoted to Baldwin — from the historical magazine of the city he dominated as lawyer, ironmaster, and Jackson organizer.
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Taylor, John B. “Hail to the Chief: A Bibliographical Essay on Six Chief Justices of the United States.” Journal of Supreme Court History 23, no. 1 (1998): 133–165.
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Taylor, John B. “Politics, the Court, and the Constitution: A Bibliographical Essay on the Pre- and Post-New Deal Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 22, no. 1 (1997): 99–118.
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Taylor, John M. “Justice Stephen M. Field.” American History Illustrated 9 (October 1974): 34-38.
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Taylor, Michael H. James Wilson: The Anxious Founder. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023.
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Taylor, Michael J. C. “‘A More Perfect Union’: Ableman v. Booth and the Culmination of Federal Sovereignty.” Journal of Supreme Court History 28, no. 2 (2003): 101–115.
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Taylor, Telford. The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
The standard insider history of the trial Jackson led, by his successor as chief counsel — unsparing about Jackson's disastrous cross-examination of Göring and generous about the achievement anyway.
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Taylor, Telford. “Robert H. Jackson, 1892-1954: The Nuremberg Trials.” Columbia Law Review 55 (1955): 488-525.
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Teaford, Jon C. “Toward a Christian Nation: Religion, Law, and Justice Strong.” Journal of Presbyterian History 54 (Winter 1976): 422-437.
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Teger, Stuart H. “Presidential Strategy for the Appointment of Supreme Court Justices.” Ph.D. diss., University of Rochester, 1976.
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Teger, Stuart H. “Presidential Strategy for the Appointment of Supreme Court Justices.” Public Choice 31 (Fall 1977): 1-22.
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Teiser, Sidney. “William Strong, Associate Justice of the Territorial Courts.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 64 (December 1963): 293-308.
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Temple, Larry. “Mr. Justice Clark: A Tribute.” American Journal of Criminal Law 5 (October 1977): 271-274.
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Tenhundfeld, Mark J. State of Segregation: America's Freedom Rights Struggles as Told by Alabama. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2026.
Alabama's civil-rights history told through thirty-two Supreme Court cases from the state, Giles v. Harris to Reynolds v. Sims, Powell and Norris v. Alabama, Browder v. Gayle and Gomillion, in seven topical parts, by Mark Tenhundfeld, a Mobile lawyer turned teacher; Alabama, April 2026, 318 pages. Not read.
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Terrell, Timothy P. “'Property', 'Due Process', and the Distinction between Definition and Theory in Legal Analysis.” Georgetown Law Journal 70 (February 1982): 881-941.
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Terris, Bruce J. “Attorney General Kennedy versus Solicitor General Cox: The Formulation of the Federal Government’s Position in the Reapportionment Cases.” Journal of Supreme Court History 32, no. 3 (2007): 335–345.
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Thai, Joseph T. “The Law Clerk Who Wrote Rasul v. Bush: John Paul Stevens's Influence from World War II to the War on Terror.” Virginia Law Review 92 (2006): 501.
The Ahrens-to-Rasul loop: the 1948 clerk's work on Justice Rutledge's dissent in Ahrens v. Clark, and the 2004 opinion for the Court that reached the Guantanamo detainees on the same distinction between jurisdiction and venue, by a former Stevens clerk.
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Thapar, Amul. The People's Justice: Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories That Define Him. Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 2023.
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Thayer, Ezra R. “Horace Gray.” Harvard Graduates' Magazine 11 (March 1903): 345-350.
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Thayer, James B. John Marshall. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1901.
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“The Federal Judiciary: What Role Politics?” Judicature 68 (April/May 1985): 330-336.
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“The Gavel Passes.” National Law Journal 7 (June 30, 1986): 1-20.
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“The Jefferson–Johnson Correspondence, 1822–1823.” Founders Online, National Archives.
The great primary-source seam: the retired Jefferson urging Johnson to revive seriatim opinions and break Marshall's unanimity, and Johnson's replies candidly describing the Court's internal practice — including how opinions really got assigned and swallowed.
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“The Late Robert Cooper Grier.” Albany Law Journal 2 (October 15, 1870): 294-295.
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The Papers of Justice Tom C. Clark — Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas at Austin (collection guide). Austin: Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas School of Law, 1949–1977.
The Court years: 524 linear feet, 869 boxes, given by his widow in 1977, with case files, bench memoranda, docket sheets, briefs and slip opinions for the eighteen terms, fifty-six feet of correspondence and fifty-nine of speeches and travel.
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“The Unjust Judge: A Memorial of Roger Brooke Taney.” Anonymous pamphlet. New York: Baker & Godwin, 1865.
Published within months of his death: a pamphlet-length assassination of the late Chief Justice's character, so venomous that identifying its author became a scholarly parlor game — Walker Lewis's "The Unjust Judge: Who Wrote It?"
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Thomas, Andrew Peyton. Clarence Thomas: A Biography. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2001.
The first comprehensive biography — a sympathetic full-length life covering the Georgia childhood, the seminary, Yale, the EEOC, and the confirmation.
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Thomas, Clarence. My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir. New York: Harper, 2007.
Thomas's own account of his life, and an indispensable and moving counterpart to the outside studies.
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Thomas, Clarence. “Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg.” Journal of Supreme Court History 46, no. 1 (2021): 7–9.
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Thomas, Clarence. “The Virtue of Defeat: Plessy v. Ferguson in Retrospect.” Journal of Supreme Court History 22, no. 2 (1997): 15–24.
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Thomas, Evan. First: Sandra Day O'Connor. New York: Random House, 2019.
The definitive biography, and a superb one.
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Thomas, Helen S. “Justice William O. Douglas and the Concept of a 'Fair Trial.'” Vanderbilt Law Review 18 (March 1965): 701-716.
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Thomas, Helen S. “Scholar on the Bench: The Judicial Performance of Justice Felix Frankfurter.” Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1959.
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Thomas, Helen Shirley. Felix Frankfurter: Scholar on the Bench. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1960.
An early academic study of Frankfurter's jurisprudence, published while he still sat — the first serious attempt to systematize his philosophy of self-limitation and deference to the elected branches.
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Thomas, William G., III. A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020.
The story of the Queen, Butler, and Bell families, who sued for their freedom in Maryland and Washington courts for three generations.
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Thompson, Guy A., John W. Davis, and Chief Justice Hughes. “Laying of the Corner-Stone of the Supreme Court Building.” Federal Bar Association Journal 1 (October 1932): 11-19.
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Thompson, John R. “Mr. Justice Stewart Serves on Approval.” Reporter 20 (February 5, 1959): 31-32.
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Thompson, Milton W. “The Social Thought of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.” Ph.D. diss., Marquette University, 1931.
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Thompson, William D. “John Marshall: His Constitutional Decisions.” Marquette Law Review 7 (April 1923): 111-130.
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Thorne, Hayden. “The Influence of Legal Strategy in Dennis v. U.S. (1951) and Yates v. U.S. (1957).” Journal of Supreme Court History 44, no. 2 (2019): 170–188.
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Thornton, J. Mills, III. “Hugo Black and the Golden Age.” Alabama Law Review 36 (Spring 1985): 899-914.
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Thornton, John E. “Balancing Various Community Interests: Should This Be Part of the Judicial Function?” American Bar Association Journal 35 (June 1949): 473-475.
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Thorp, Galen N. “William Wirt.” Journal of Supreme Court History 33, no. 3 (2008): 223–303.
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Thorpe, Francis N. “Hamilton's Ideas in Marshall's Decisions.” Boston University Law Review 1 (April 1921): 60-98.
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Thorpe, James A. The Appearance of Supreme Court Nominees before the Senate Judiciary Committee: The Evolution of a Problem in the Separation of Powers. 2d ed. Superior, WI: Superior Publications, 1977.
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Threlkeld, Megan. “Citizenship, Gender, and Conscience: United States v. Schwimmer.” Journal of Supreme Court History 40, no. 2 (2015): 154–171.
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Thurgood Marshall Papers — Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1949-1991.
A career's paper in 579 containers: 173,700 items, 231.6 linear feet, 1949 to 1991 with the bulk from 1961.
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Tillett, Paul. “Mr. Justice Black, Chief Justice Marshall, and the Commerce Clause.” Nebraska Law Review 43 (December 1963): 1-26.
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Timberlake, Richard H. Constitutional Money: A Review of the Supreme Court's Monetary Decisions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Nine monetary decisions from McCulloch v. Maryland to the Gold Clause Cases, read by the economist Richard Timberlake as misjudgments under political pressure, with his own case for a gold standard in the closing chapter; Cambridge, April 2013, 247 pages. Not read.
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Titus, James E. “Studies in American Liberalism of the 1930s: John Dewey, Benjamin Cardozo, and Thurmond Arnold.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1957.
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“To Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Anniversary Oblation.” Illinois Law Review 10 (April 1916): 617-632.
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Tobias, Carl. “Warren Burger and the Administration of Justice.” Villanova Law Review 41 (1996): 505.
The case that his real legacy is administrative: the institutions he built and the reforms he pushed for the federal courts, weighed against a jurisprudence that neither wing would claim.
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Tobriner, Matthew O. “Brandeis, Architect of the Law.” California State Bar Journal 13 (August 1938): 20-23.
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Todd, Alden L. Justice on Trial: The Case of Louis D. Brandeis. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.
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Todd, James A. “Cooley v. Board of Wardens and its Nineteenth-Century Legacy.” Journal of Supreme Court History 45, no. 1 (2020): 7–27.
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Tom C. Clark Papers — Harry S. Truman Presidential Library (finding aid). Independence, Missouri: Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, 1941–1971.
The Justice Department half of the papers: fifty-three feet of correspondence, case files, speeches and appointment calendars from the Criminal Division and the Attorney General's office, 1941 to 1949, with the Supreme Court nomination file and social correspondence running to 1971.
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Tomlins, Christopher, ed. The United States Supreme Court: The Pursuit of Justice. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
A one-volume history developed with the American Bar Foundation and published by Houghton Mifflin in 2005, edited by Christopher Tomlins, catalogued under the Court's history and constitutional history. No copy found online. Not read.
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Toobin, Jeffrey. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. New York: Doubleday, 2007.
Narrative journalism on the Court from the mid-Rehnquist years to Alito's arrival, built on not-for-attribution interviews with the justices and more than seventy-five law clerks.
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Toobin, Jeffrey. The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court. New York: Doubleday, 2012.
Jeffrey Toobin's gripping narrative of the collision between the Obama White House and the Roberts Court — Citizens United, the health-care case, and the frosty relationship between the president and the Chief who fumbled his inaugural oath and then, improbably, saved his signature law.
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Totenberg, Nina. “The Confirmation Process and the Public: To Know or Not to Know.” Harvard Law Review 101 (April 1988): 1213-1229.
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Toth, Michael C. Founding Federalist: The Life of Oliver Ellsworth. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2011.
The most accessible modern biography — from Windsor and Princeton through the Connecticut Compromise, the "Landholder" ratification essays, the drafting of the Judiciary Act of 1789, the Chief Justiceship, and the peace mission to Napoleon's France.
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Touster, Saul. “Holmes: The Years of the Common Law.” Columbia Law Review 64 (February 1964): 230-247.
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Touster, Saul. “In Search of Holmes from Within.” Vanderbilt Law Review 18 (March 1965): 437-472.
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Townsend, Henry H. “Justice Holmes, the Dissenter.” Connecticut Bar Journal 11 (1937): 167-183.
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Townshend, Norton S. “Salmon P. Chase.” Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 1 (September 1887): 111-126.
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Tramontine, John O. “Recess Appointments to the Supreme Court.” Intramural Law Review of New York University 17 (1962): 157-185.
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Trapp, William O. “Constitutional Doctrines of Owen J. Roberts.” Ph.D. diss., Cornell University, 1943.
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Treanor, William Michael. “The Jurisprudence of Justice Stevens.” Fordham Law Review 74 (2006): 1557.
The introduction to Fordham's thirtieth-anniversary symposium, which prints President Ford's letter of September 21, 2005 saying he was prepared to let history's judgment of his presidency rest on the nomination.
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Treiman, Israel. “Mr. Justice Rutledge.” Dicta 20 (April 1943): 85-94.
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Treiman, Israel. “Mr. Justice Rutledge: An Appraisal Based upon His Opinions While on the U.S. Court of Appeals.” Missouri Bar Journal 14 (January 1943): 4-6.
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Trestman, Marlene. “Addenda to ‘Fair Labor: The Remarkable Life and Legal Career of Bessie Margolin,’: A Discussion of Methodology in Tallying Margolin’s Supreme Court Argument Record as Well as Those of Other Pioneer Female Advocates Mabel W. Willebrandt, Helen R. Carloss, and Beatrice Rosenberg.” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 2 (2013): 252–260.
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Trestman, Marlene. “Fair Labor: The Remarkable Life and Legal Career of Bessie Margolin (1909-1996).” Journal of Supreme Court History 37, no. 1 (2012): 42–74.
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Trestman, Marlene. “Women Advocates Before the Supreme Court, from October Term 1880 through December 2016.” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 2 (2017): 209–211.
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Tribe, Laurence H. God Save This Honorable Court: How the Choice of Supreme Court Justices Shapes Our History. New York: Random House, 1985.
Made in 1985, the case that the Senate owes a president no deference on judicial philosophy — by the Harvard professor who testified against Bork and later acknowledged unattributed borrowing from Henry Abraham.
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Tribe, Laurence H. “What Difference Can a Justice or Two Make?” American Bar Association Journal 71 (September 1985): 60-62.
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Tribe, Laurence, and Joshua Matz. Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution. New York: Henry Holt, 2014.
The constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz on the Roberts Court's jurisprudence — a nuanced argument that it is less predictable, and less monolithically conservative, than either side believes.
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“Tributes to Justice Whittaker.” Texas Law Review 40 (1962): 742.
The farewell on his retirement, from Friedman and Israel's own bibliography.
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Trimble, Bruce R. Chief Justice Waite: Defender of the Public Interest. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1938.
The only other full-length Waite biography — the pre-Magrath standard life, framed around Munn v. Illinois and Waite's deference to public regulation.
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Trimble, Bruce R. “Chief Justice Waite and the Limitations of the Dartmouth College Decision.” University of Cincinnati Law Review 9 (January 1935): 41-66.
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Trimble, Bruce R. “The Life and Constitutional Doctrines of Chief Justice Waite.” Ph.D. diss., Cornell University, 1934.
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Troup, Robert. A Letter to the Honorable Brockholst Livingston... on the Lake Canal Policy of the State of New York, with a Supplement, and Additional Documents. Albany, NY: Packard and Van Benthuysen, 1822.
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Trowbridge, J. T. “The First Visit to Washington: Salmon P. Chase.” Atlantic Monthly 13 (April 1864): 448-457.
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Tucker, Caroline. John Marshall, the ChiefJustice. New York: Ariel Books, 1962.
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Tucker, David M. “Justice Horace Harmon Lurton: The Shaping of a National Progressive.” American Journal of Legal History 13 (1969): 223–232.
The one scholarly article ever dedicated to Lurton — the teenage Confederate cavalryman, imprisoned twice, who rose to the Supreme Court appointed by a Republican president.
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Tucker, Henry S. “Judge Story's Position on the So-Called General Welfare Clause.” Constitutional Review 13 (January 1929): 13-35.
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Tuckerman, Henry T. “Violations of Literary Property: The Federalist: Life and Character of John Jay.” Continental Monthly 6 (September 1864): 336-355.
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Tufts, James H. “The Legal and Social Philosophy of Mr. Justice Holmes.” American Bar Association Journal 7 (July 1921): 359-363.
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Tugwell, Rexford G. “Roosevelt and Frankfurter: An Essay Review.” Political Science Quarterly 85 (March 1970): 99-114.
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Tullis, Robert L. “Benjamin Nathan Cardozo: Jurist, Philosopher, Humanitarian.” Louisiana Law Review 1 (November 1938): 147-156.
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Tunstall, Robert B. “John Marshall: One Hundred Years After.” American Bar Association Journal 21 (September 1935): 561-567.
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Turner, Charles C., Lori Beth Way and Nancy Maveety. “Beginning to Write Separately: The Origins and Development of Concurring Judicial Opinions.” Journal of Supreme Court History 35, no. 2 (2010): 93–109.
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Turner, Helen. “Mr. Justice Holmes.” Tennessee Law Review 10 (February 1932): 127-128.
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Turner, Kathryn. “The Appointment of Chief Justice Marshall.” William and Mary Quarterly 17 (April 1960): 143-163.
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Turner, Robert F. “The Supreme Court, Separation of Powers, and the Protection of Individual Rights during Periods of War or National Security Emergency.” Journal of Supreme Court History 28, no. 3 (2003): 323–338.
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Turner, William. Documents in Relation to the Charges Preferred by Stephen J. Field. New York: Harper, 1853.
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Tushnet, Mark V. In the Balance: Law and Politics on the Roberts Court. New York: W. W. Norton, 2013.
Mark Tushnet's scholarly account of law and politics on the Roberts Court — the academic counterpart to the journalists' narratives, mapping the blocs, the doctrinal stakes, and the Chief's institutional caution.
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Tushnet, Mark V. Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936–1961. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
The definitive study of Marshall's work as a lawyer — the long campaign that culminated in Brown.
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Tushnet, Mark V. Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961–1991. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
The companion to Making Civil Rights Law, and the essential study of Marshall the justice — the twenty-four years on the Court, the alliance with Brennan, and the great dissents on race, poverty, and the death penalty as the Court moved right around him.
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Tushnet, Mark V. The Hughes Court: From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941 (Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court, vol. 11). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
The Holmes Devise volume on Hughes's chief justiceship — the fullest scholarly account of the Court that faced down FDR, absorbed the constitutional revolution of 1937, and invented modern rights jurisprudence in footnote four.
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Tushnet, Mark V. The NAACP's Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1925–1950. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
The scholarly foundation for Making Civil Rights Law — a close study of how the NAACP, under Houston and then Marshall, built the campaign against school segregation from the ground up, choosing plaintiffs, courts, and arguments with strategic patience across a quarter-century.
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Tushnet, Mark V. “The Constitutional Right to One's Good Name: An Examination of the Scholarship of Mr. Justice Rehnquist.” Kentucky Law Journal 64 (1976): 753-766.
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Tushnet, Mark V. “The Logic of Experience: Oliver Wendell Holmes on the Supreme Judicial Court.” Virginia Law Review 63 (October 1977): 975-1052.
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Tushnet, Mark V., ed. Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2001.
The essential documentary reader — Marshall across the whole life in his own words: NAACP arguments, the candid oral history he gave Columbia, speeches, and major opinions, gathered and framed by his biographer.
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Tushnet, Mark, ed. I Dissent: Great Opposing Opinions in Landmark Supreme Court Cases. Beacon Press, 2008.
Thirteen dissents from Marbury v. Madison to Lawrence v. Texas, each with Mark Tushnet's commentary and a consideration of how the law would have developed had the dissent carried the day, on the premise that decisions are political statements by intelligent partisans; Beacon Press, June 2008, 256 pages. Not read.
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Tushnet, Mark, ed. The Warren Court in Historical and Political Perspective. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1993.
The Warren Court set in its history and politics, 220 pages of essays from the University Press of Virginia in 1993 edited by Mark Tushnet. One of the books Jim owns that had no shelf until now. No copy found online. Not read.
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Tushnet, Mark. A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005.
Mark Tushnet's argument that the Rehnquist Court's divisions tracked a split inside the Republican party between its economic and its social conservatives; W. W. Norton, 2005, 384 pages, the paperback of which is the Library's 2006 record. Not read.
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Tushnet, Mark. Taking Back the Constitution: Activist Judges and the Next Age of American Law. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020.
Mark Tushnet traces constitutional development from New Deal liberalism through the Reagan era to the possible futures after 2016, and argues for popular constitutionalism in place of judicial supremacy; Yale, July 2020, 320 pages. Not read.
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Tushnet, Mark. Who Am I to Judge? Judicial Craft versus Constitutional Theory. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025.
Mark Tushnet's short case that good judgment, not a theory of interpretation, is what a judge needs, and that the Court's best periods had no theory at all; Yale, February 2025, 192 pages. Not read.
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Tushnet, Mark. “Dual Office Holding and the Constitution: A View From Hayburn’s Case.” Journal of Supreme Court History 15 (1990): 44–58.
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Tushnet, Mark. “Willis Van Devanter: The Person.” Journal of Supreme Court History 45, no. 3 (2020): 308–327.
The only modern biographical study of Van Devanter — the Wyoming railroad lawyer whose 'pen paralysis' left almost no written legacy, reconstructed from his letters.
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Tushnet, Mark. “Writing Supreme Court Histories.” Journal of Supreme Court History 18 (1993): 11–20.
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Tyler, Frederick S. “An All-Time Star Supreme Court.” Journal of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia 12 (April 1945): 124-125.
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Tyler, Samuel. Memoir of Roger Brooke Taney, LL.D., Chief Justice of the United States. Baltimore: John Murphy, 1872.
The authorized answer to The Unjust Judge, built around Taney's own autobiographical fragment — the only sustained account of his early life in his own voice, with the Gruber defense preserved in full.
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