This second volume in the new imprint TimesReference from CQ Press, uses carefully chosen articles from The Times to explore the history and influence of the Supreme Court. Author Kenneth Jost provides expert analysis and presents selected news stories, letters to the editor, and Op Ed essays from the paper to look at the development of the Court and its relationship to the other branches of government and to the states. Later chapters explore key themesincluding freedom of ideas, the rights of political participation, equal protection of the law, crime and punishmentand the appropriate major...