Composition and Control of the Supreme Court

Fresh Air

Published January 23, 2007 at 11:00 AM EST

Legal correspondent for ABC News, Jan Crawford Greenberg writes about the Rehnquist Court in her new book Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court.

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