The nine justices of the Supreme Court of the United States serve as the final arbiters of which laws are and aren’t constitutional. Every year, thousands of contentious cases are submitted to the court for that reason; only about eighty of them are heard. Out of those cases, many are remembered only by the people directly involved. But over the years, many cases heard by the Supreme Court have gone on to affect the lives of many or even all American citizens.
In
The Supreme Court: Landmark Decisions
, veteran court reporter Tony Mauro picks out the twenty most momentous Supreme Court cases in United States history. In his reviews of
Marbury v. Madison
, the 1803 case that first affirmed the Supreme Court’s status as the country’s final legal arbiter, to
Obergefell v. Hodges
, the 2015 case that legalized same-sex marriage, Mauro summarizes each case and includes cogent summaries of the justices' decisions, as well as notable dissents.
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