TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baum,Lawrence
AU  - Devins,Neal
TI  - The company they keep: how partisan divisions came to the Supreme Court 
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780197548448 (ebook) :
AV  - KF8748 
U1  - 347.7326 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - United States
KW  - Supreme Court
KW  - Judicial process
KW  - Political questions and judicial power
N1  - Previously issued in print: 2020; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - Are Supreme Court justices swayed by the political environment that surrounds them? Most people think 'yes,' and they point to the influence of the general public and the other branches of government on the Court. It is not that simple, however. As the eminent law and politics scholars Neal Devins and Lawrence Baum show in this book, justices today are reacting far more to subtle social forces in their own elite legal world than to pressure from the other branches of government or mass public opinion. In particular, the authors draw from social psychology research to show why Justices are apt to follow the lead of the elite social networks that they are a part of
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197539156.001.0001
ER  -