Battles on the Bench: Conflict Inside the Supreme Court

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Felix Frankfurter’s blustery depiction of debate within the Supreme Court suggests that combat sometimes supersedes collegiality in those hallowed halls. In fact, as Phillip Cooper shows, conflict is an inescapable fact of life in the Marble Temple.

Cooper peels back the calm, quiet public image of our judicial royalty to reveal their “family” feuds and squabbles. He shows that, whether motivated by deeply felt principle or by petty and vindictive impulses, these disp...