The Modern Court, from the Inside

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Lazarus, Edward. Closed Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court. 1998.

Savage, David G. Turning Right: The Making of the Rehnquist Supreme Court. 1992.

Simon, James F. The Center Holds: The Power Struggle Inside the Rehnquist Court. 1995.

Toobin, Jeffrey. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. 2007.

Toobin, Jeffrey. The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court. 2012.

Biskupic, Joan. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court’s Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences. 2023.

Coyle, Marcia. The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution. 2013.

Tribe, Laurence, and Joshua Matz. Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution. 2014.

McFeatters, Ann Carey. Sandra Day O’Connor: Justice in the Balance. 2005.

Kaplan, David A. The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court in the Age of Trump. 2018.

Kairys, David. With Liberty and Justice for Some: A Critique of the Conservative Supreme Court. 1993.

Schwartz, Bernard. The New Right and the Constitution: Turning Back the Legal Clock. 1990.

Vladeck, Stephen I. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic. 2023.

Litman, Leah. Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes. 2025.

Keck, Thomas M. The Most Activist Supreme Court in History: The Road to Modern Judicial Conservatism. 2004.

Vladeck, Stephen I. The Solicitor General and the Shadow Docket. 2019.

Vladeck, Stephen I. Putting the “Shadow Docket” in Perspective. 2023.

Noonan, John T., Jr. Narrowing the Nation's Power: The Supreme Court Sides with the States. 2002.

Belsky, Martin H., ed. The Rehnquist Court: A Retrospective. 2002.

Schwartz, Herman, ed. The Rehnquist Court: Judicial Activism on the Right. 2002.

Isgur, Sarah. Last Branch Standing: A Potentially Surprising, Occasionally Witty Journey Inside Today's Supreme Court. 2026.

Painter, Richard W. Conduct Unbecoming: The Ethics Crisis at the Supreme Court and How Legitimacy Can Be Restored. 2026.

Feldman, Stephen M. Who Belongs: White Christian Nationalism and the Roberts Court. 2026.

Chemerinsky, Erwin. The Supreme Court in Transition: October Term 2020. 2021.

Chemerinsky, Erwin. A Momentous Year in the Supreme Court: October Term 2021. 2022.

Chemerinsky, Erwin. The Supreme Judiciary: October Term 2022. 2023.

Chemerinsky, Erwin. A Court Divided: October Term 2023. 2024.

Chemerinsky, Erwin. The Supreme Court October Term 2024: Taking Sides. 2025.

Fallon, Richard H., Jr. The Changing Constitution: Constitutional Law in the Trump-Era Supreme Court. 2025.

Graves, Lisa. Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights. 2025.

Brock, David. Stench: The Making of the Thomas Court and the Unmaking of America. 2024.

Dennie, Madiba K. The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back. 2024.

Johnson, Kevin A., and Craig R. Smith. Fear and the First Amendment: Controversial Cases of the Roberts Court. 2024.

Russomanno, Joseph. The "Stench" of Politics: Polarization and Worldview on the Supreme Court. 2023.

Tang, Aaron. Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court, and How We Can Fix It. 2023.

Waldman, Michael. The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America. 2023.

United States House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. The Supreme Court's Shadow Docket: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, 117th Congress, 1st Session, February 18, 2021. 2022.

Greenhouse, Linda. Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court. 2021.

Millhiser, Ian. The Agenda: How a Republican Supreme Court Is Reshaping America. 2021.

Cohen, Adam. Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America. 2020.

Devins, Neal, and Lawrence Baum. The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court. 2019.

Tushnet, Mark. Taking Back the Constitution: Activist Judges and the Next Age of American Law. 2020.

Cruz, Ted. One Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History. 2020.

Seidel, Andrew L. American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom. 2022.

Waltman, Jerold. Church and State in the Roberts Court: Christian Conservatism and Social Change in Ten Cases, 2005-2018. 2019.

Rebe, Ryan J. The Partisan Court: The Era of Political Partisanship on the U.S. Supreme Court. 2021.

Epps, Garrett. American Justice 2014: Nine Clashing Visions on the Supreme Court. 2014.

Mazie, Steven V. American Justice 2015: The Dramatic Tenth Term of the Roberts Court. 2015.

Caplan, Lincoln. American Justice 2016: The Political Supreme Court. 2016.

Robinson, Kimberly. American Justice 2017: The Supreme Court in Crisis. 2017.

Ruger, Todd. American Justice 2018: The Shifting Supreme Court. 2018.

Stern, Mark Joseph. American Justice 2019: The Roberts Court Arrives. 2019.

Adler, Jonathan H., ed. Business and the Roberts Court. 2016.

Magarian, Gregory P. Managed Speech: The Roberts Court's First Amendment. 2017.

Gizzi, Michael C., and R. Craig Curtis. The Fourth Amendment in Flux: The Roberts Court, Crime Control, and Digital Privacy. 2016.

Gottlieb, Stephen E. Unfit for Democracy: The Roberts Court and the Breakdown of American Politics. 2016.

Zirin, James D. Supremely Partisan: How Raw Politics Tips the Scales in the United States Supreme Court. 2016.

Feldman, Stephen M. Neoconservative Politics and the Supreme Court: Law, Power, and Democracy. 2013.

Tushnet, Mark. A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law. 2005.

Hudson, David L., Jr. The Rehnquist Court: Understanding Its Impact and Legacy. 2007.

Smith, Christopher E., Christina DeJong, and Michael A. McCall, eds. The Rehnquist Court and Criminal Justice. 2011.

Avery, Michael, ed. We Dissent: Talking Back to the Rehnquist Court: Eight Cases That Subverted Civil Liberties and Civil Rights. 2009.

Dworkin, Ronald. The Supreme Court Phalanx: The Court's New Right-Wing Bloc. 2008.

Garbus, Martin. The Next 25 Years: The New Supreme Court and What It Means for Americans. 2007.

Banks, Christopher P., and John C. Blakeman. The U.S. Supreme Court and New Federalism: From the Rehnquist to the Roberts Court. 2012.

Smith, Craig R. A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court. 2011.

United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Barriers to Justice and Accountability: How the Supreme Court's Recent Rulings Will Affect Corporate Behavior: Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 112th Congress, 1st Session, June 29, 2011. 2012.