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The Nature of Supreme Court Power. By Matthew E. K. Hall. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011. 262 pp. $94.00 cloth. - Merely Judgment: Ignoring, Evading, and Trumping the Supreme Court. By Martin J. Sweet. Charlottesville and London: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2010. 240 pp. $35.00 cloth.

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The Nature of Supreme Court Power. By Matthew E. K. Hall. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011. 262 pp. $94.00 cloth.
Merely Judgment: Ignoring, Evading, and Trumping the Supreme Court. By Martin J. Sweet. Charlottesville and London: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2010. 240 pp. $35.00 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Michael Paris
Michael Paris*
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Department of Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy, College of Staten Island (CUNY)
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Law & Society Review , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , September 2013 , pp. 687 - 692
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