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• A Country I Do Not Recognize: The Legal Assault on American Values (delisted 26 May 2023; free online edition withdrawn by publisher), ed. by Robert H. Bork
• Are federal and state defense of marriage initiatives vulnerable to judicial activism (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2005), by Civil Rights United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voting Rights Act : the judicial evolution of the retrogression standard : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, November 9, 2005. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voting Rights Act : evidence of continued need : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, March 8, 2006. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Judicial security and independence : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, February 14, 2007. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2007), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Judicial interpretation of political theory; a study in the relation of the courts to the American party system (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1914), by William Bennett Bizzell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Defining the future of campaign finance in an age of Supreme Court activism : hearing before the Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, held in Washington, DC, February 3, 2010. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2010), by United States House Committee on House Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Solicitor General oversight : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, on examining the operation and activities of the Office of the Solicitor General of the Department of Justice, November 14, 1995. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1997), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Judicial activism : defining the problem and its impact : hearings before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, on S.J. Res. 26, a bill proposing a constitutional amendment to establish limited judicial terms of office, June 11, July 15, and 29, 1997. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1997), by Federalism United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Judicial activism versus democracy (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2005), by Civil Rights United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new look at plurality decisions. (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Legal Policy :, 1989), by United States. Dept. of Justice. Office of Legal Policy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legislative responses to school desegregation litigation : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session, April 16, 1996. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1997), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Considering the role of judges under the Constitution of the United States : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, October 5, 2011 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2011), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Politics of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 (with a new introduction; New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Robert J. Kaczorowski (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Speech of Mr. White, of Sumner, on the judiciary : delivered in the Convention of Tennessee, on the 7th and 8th of July, 1834. (1834), by Hugh Lawson White, J. Durelle Boles, J. Durelle Boles Collection of Southern Imprints, and Tennessee. Constitutional Convention (1834) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Limitation of Appellate Jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary,Subcommittee To Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Eighty-Fifth Congress, first session, Eighty-Fifth Congress, second session. (U.S. G.P.O., 1957), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Judicial Activism: Authority, Principle and Policy in the Judicial Method (Hamlyn Lectures, #55; London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2004), by M. D. Kirby (PDF in the UK)

• L'anarchie judiciaire en Algérie (D. Heintz, 1894), by E. Bariat (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Question concerning the great and weightie affairs of the whole kingdome shewing how lawes are to be understood, and obedience yeelded : also, an answer to the aforesaid question, necessary for the present state of things touching the militia ... ([London] : Printed for John Goal, 1641) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Atrocious Judges : Lives of Judges Infamous as Tools of Tyrants and Instruments of Oppression, by John Campbell Campbell, ed. by Richard Hildreth (Gutenberg ebook)

• Discretionary function exemption of the Federal Tort Claims Act and the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act : hearings before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session, on H.R. 1095, H.R. 2372, and H.R. 2536, November 1 and 8, 1989. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1990), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations (page images at HathiTrust)

• Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees (c2011), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• Federal use of contractors and consultants : hearings before the Subcommittee on Limitations of Contracted and Delegated Authority of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session, on federal use of contractors and consultants, September 25 and October 7, 1980. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1981), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Limitations of Contracted and Delegated Authority (page images at HathiTrust)
• Use and misuse of presidential clemency power for executive branch officials : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, July 11, 2007. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2008), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Implementation of the U.S. Department of Justice's special counsel regulation : hearing before the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, February 26, 2008. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2009), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hearing on abuse of power at the Department of Labor : hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session, hearing held in Washington, DC, April 25, 1996. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1996), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Administrative crimes and quasi-crimes : hearing before the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, second session, May 7, 1998. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2000), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation of the 1992 Postal Inspection Service narcotics trafficking operation in Cleveland, OH : hearing before the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, November 29, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Field hearing on Postal Inspection Service drug sting operation : hearing before the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, February 28, 1994. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigative procedures of the U.S. Postal Service : hearing before the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, May 12, 1994. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pension Office investigation (U.S. G.P.O., 1892), by United States House of Representatives (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oversight hearings to examine the laws, policies, practices, and operations of the DOI, DOE, and other agencies pertaining to payments to their employees, including payments relative to mineral royalty programs and policies from public lands and Indian lands : oversight hearings before the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of the Committee on Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, May 4 and 18, 2000, Washington, DC. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2000), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• The NLRB recess appointments : implications for America's workers and employers : hearing before the Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, second session, hearing held in Washington, DC, February 7, 2012. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2012), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Executive overreach : the President's unprecedented "recess" appointments" : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, second session, February 15, 2012 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2012), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• OSHA's regulatory agenda : changing long-standing policies outside the public rulemaking process : hearing before the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, hearing held in Washington, DC, February 4, 2014. ([publisher not identified], 2014), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Workforce Protections and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Return of the NLRB's ambush election rule (Washington : U.S. Government Publishing Office, 2016., 2016), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce (page images at HathiTrust)

• Opportunity for police - minority community cooperation (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Community Relations Service, 1980), by Md.) National Consultation on Safety and Force (1979 : Silver Spring and United States Community Relations Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Balance of forces : executive summary (U.S. Dept. of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 1982), by Kenneth J. Matulia, International Association of Chiefs of Police, United States Department of Justice, and National Institute of Justice (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Broken windows and police discretion (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice, 1999), by George L. Kelling and National Institute of Justice (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Court vs. Congress: Prayer, Busing, and Abortion (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1989), by Edward Keynes and Randall K. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Supreme Court on Trial (New York: Atherton Press, 1964), by Charles S. Hyneman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Presidency in the courts (University of Minnesota Press, 1957), by Glendon A. Schubert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Power of federal judiciary over legislation; its origin, the power to set aside laws, boundaries of the power, judicial independence, existing evils and remedies (Putnam, 1912), by J. Hampden Dougherty (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The conflict over judicial powers in the United States to 1870 (Columbia University :, 1909), by Charles Grove Haines (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le gouvernement des juges et la lutte contre la législation sociale aux États-Unis (M. Giard & cie, 1921), by Edouard Lambert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Conservative crisis and the rule of law: attitudes of bar and bench, 1887-1895. (Published for the American Historical Association [by] Cornell University Press, 1960), by Arnold M. Paul (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Framework for studying the controversy concerning the federal courts and federalism. (Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1986), by United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• To establish a commission to study the federal courts : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on S. 675 ... and S. 1530 ... May 12, 1982. (U.S. G.P.O., 1982), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mandatory appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court abolition of civil priorities : jurors rights : hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice, of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, on H.R. 2406, H.R. 4395, and H.R. 4396 ... June 22, 1982. (U.S. G.P.O., 1983), by Civil Liberties United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legislative veto and the "Chadha" decision hearing before the Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, on effects of the Supreme Court's decision in Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha on legislative veto. (U.S. G.P.O., 1983), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legislative veto after Chadha hearings before the Committee on Rules, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, on the impact of the Supreme Court decision in the case of Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha which found the legislative veto unconstitutional, November 9, 10, 1983, February 23, 29, March 1, 21, 22, and May 10, 1984. (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States House Committee on Rules (page images at HathiTrust)
• Medicare peer review organizations : hearings before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, first session, on H.R. 1445 ... H.R. 2116 ... April 30 and October 26, 1987. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1988), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Supreme Court on trial : how the American justice system sacrifices innocent defendants (University of Michigan Press, 2008), by George C. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Judicial review of federal executive action : a compilation of cases that exhibit the extent of the power in the federal judiciary to review the acts of executive officers, boards, bureaus and commissions of the United States ... (Michie Co., 1930), by Patrick Henry Loughran (page images at HathiTrust)
• The judicial veto (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914), by Horace A. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Judicial interpretation of political theory; a study in the relation of the courts to the American party system (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1914), by William Bennett Bizzell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Judicial review of orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Hearing, Ninety-first Congress, first session, on S. 2242 and S. 2244 ... October 7, 1969. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1969), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federalism and the federal judiciary : hearings before the Subcommittee on Separation of Powers of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session on federalism and the federal judiciary, March 16, 25; April 28; May 4, 25; and June 10, 1983. (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal court review of tribal courts rulings in actions arising under Indian Civil Rights Act : hearing before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, first session ... November 20, 1991, Washington, DC. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by United States Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Judicial activism : defining the problem and its impact : hearings before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, on S.J. Res. 26, a bill proposing a constitutional amendment to establish limited judicial terms of office, June 11, July 15, and 29, 1997. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1997), by Federalism United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constitution Restoration Act of 2004 hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, on H.R. 3799, September 13, 2004. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2004), by the Internet United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legislative veto and the "Chadha" decision : hearing before the Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, on effects of the Supreme Court's decision in Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha on legislative veto. (U.S. G.P.O., 1983), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Judicial review of I.C.C. orders: hearing before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, second session, on S. 2687, to amend section 17 of the Interstate Commerce Act to provide for Judicial Review of orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and for other purposes, June 25, 1968. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1968), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court reform legislation : hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, on S. 1529 ... S. 1531 ... S. 1532 ... November 16, 1981. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1982), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conflict over judicial powers in the United States to 1870. (AMS Press, 1970), by Charles Grove Haines (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The historic relation of judicial power to unconstitutional legislation ([Pittsburgh, 1912), by Hampton L. Carson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Has the Supreme court of the United States the constitutional power to declare void an act of Congress? (Philadelphia, 1901), by Henry Flanders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constitutional law in 1909-1910 (Baltimore, 1910), by Eugene Wambaugh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Power of the federal judiciary to declare legislation invalid (Govt. print. off., 1915), by David K. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Judicial Review of Certain Tax Court Decisions : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery, Eighty-Third Congress, first session, on Mar. 11, 1953. (U.S. G.P.O., 1953), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Finality Clauses in Government Contracts : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Eighty- Second Congress, second session, on Feb. 15, 20, Mar. 21, 1952. (U.S. G.P.O., 1952), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appellate review of trial court discretion (Federal Judicial Center, 1975), by Maurice Rosenberg and Federal Judicial Center (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Judicial review : hearings before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-ninth Congress, second session on S. 2097 a bill to provide for judicial review of the constitutionality of grants or loans under certain acts. (U.S. G.P.O., 1966), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights (page images at HathiTrust)

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