The last few months, we have seen a plethora of books about the U.S. Supreme Court come out or publication date announced. This is a good thing. As I wrote in the preface to my soon-to-be-published book, “The Chief Justices,” we all must have “a goal to make the Supreme Court and its workings accessible.”This column focuses on one of those books and a few other items of note on what happened last week on the national scene.BooksOn May 14, my judicial idol, Justice John Paul Stevens, comes out with …