The Supreme Court and McCarthy-era repression
Subtitle: one hundred decisions
By: Robert M. Lichtman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780252037009; 9780252094125
Subjects: Politics and government; Civil rights; United States. Supreme Court; United States; Cases; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : political repression and court-curbing; title: Defining the McCarthy era; title: The justices of the Vinson court, Douds, and the start of the court's McCarthy era (October 1949 term); title: Dennis, the Attorney General's list, loyalty programs, contempts, and more (October term 1950); title: Deportations, fallout from Dennis, and the Rosenberg case (October terms 1951 and 1952, special term 1953); title: The coming of the Warren court, the Emspak trilogy, and Brown's consequences (October terms 1953 and 1954); title: Nelson, Cole v. Young, and the beginning of the campaign against the court (October 1955 term); title: "Red Monday," Jencks, and a crescendo of anti-court attacks (October term 1956); title: Beilan, Lerner, and the court's shift, passport cases, and Congress's court-curbing climax (October term 1957); title: Barenblatt, Uphaus, the court in retreat (October terms 1958 and 1959); title: Scales and CPUSA, Wilkinson and Braden, Konigsberg II and Anastaplo, a full-scale retreat (October term 1960); title: Frankfurter's departure, a near-decision in Gibson, and the era's end ()ctober term 1961); title: Epilogue : Vietnam-war decisions and some observations.