Chapter 6

Stephen Burbank's article is “Judicial Independence, Judicial Accountability, and Interbranch Relations,” Georgetown Law Journal 95 (2007): 909–27. Efforts to strip the courts of jurisdiction over controversial issues are described in the leading recent study of the relationship between Congress and the federal judiciary, Charles Gardner Geyh's When Courts and Congress Collide: The Struggle for Control of America's Judicial System (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006). The definitive account of congressional responses to the Supreme Court's statutory rulings in the modern era is an article by William N. Eskridge Jr., “Overriding Supreme Court Statutory Interpretation Decisions,”Yale Law Journal 101 (1991): 331–455.

The Court's decision upholding the rights of the Cherokees and provoking Andrew Jackson's displeasure was Worcester v. Georgia(1832).

Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Inc. was overturned by the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, P.L. 111–2, 123 Stat. 5 (2009).