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Author: Stephen L. Carter Publisher: ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 280
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The provocative author of The Culture of Disbelief and Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby takes aim at a spectacle that more and more attracts public interest--and less and less serves the public interest. Excerpted in New York Times, Boston Globe, Commonweal and Miami Herald.
Author: Stephen L. Carter Publisher: ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 280
Book Description
The provocative author of The Culture of Disbelief and Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby takes aim at a spectacle that more and more attracts public interest--and less and less serves the public interest. Excerpted in New York Times, Boston Globe, Commonweal and Miami Herald.
Author: Stephen Carter Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 9780465013654 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 272
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Stephen L. Carter tells what's wrong with our confirmation process, explains how it got that way, and suggests what we can do to fix it. Using the most recent confirmation battles as examples, Carter argues that our confirmation process will continue to be bloody until we develop a more balanced attitude toward public service and the Supreme Court by coming to recognize that human beings have flaws, commit sins, and can be redeemed.
Author: Stephen L. Carter Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 9780465013647 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 290
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Stephen L. Carter tells what's wrong with our confirmation process, explains how it got that way, and suggests what we can do to fix it. Using the most recent confirmation battles as examples, Carter argues that our confirmation process will continue to be bloody until we develop a more balanced attitude toward public service and the Supreme Court by coming to recognize that human beings have flaws, commit sins, and can be redeemed.
Author: Benjamin Wittes Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1442201541 Category : Electronic books Languages : en Pages : 184
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Just in time for the first Supreme Court confirmation of the Obama administration, one of America's most insightful legal commentators updates the critically acclaimed Confirmation Wars: Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times to place the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor in the context of the changing nature of judicial nominations by recent presidents. Our system has gone from one in which people like Sotomayor or recent highly qualified nominees like John Roberts and Samuel Alito are shoe-ins for confirmation to a system in which they are shoe-ins for confirmation confrontations. While rejecting parodies offered by both the Right and Left of the decline of the process by which the United States Senate confirms--or rejects--the president's nominees to the federal judiciary, Wittes explains why and how this change took place. He argues that the trade has been a bad one--offering only the crudest check on executive appointments to the judiciary and putting nominees in the most untenable and unfair situations. Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution
Author: Michael Comiskey Publisher: ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 304
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In the long shadows cast by the Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas nominations, Supreme Court confirmations remain highly contentious and controversial. This is due in part to the Senate's increasing reliance upon a much lengthier, much more public, and occasionally raucous confirmation process—in an effort to curb the potential excesses of executive power created by presidents seeking greater control over the Court's ideological composition. Michael Comiskey offers the most comprehensive, systematic, and optimistic analysis of that process to date. Arguing that the process works well and therefore should not be significantly altered, Comiskey convincingly counters those critics who view highly contentious confirmation proceedings as the norm. Senators have every right and a real obligation, he contends, to scrutinize the nominees' constitutional philosophies. He further argues that the media coverage of the Senate's deliberations has worked to improve the level of such scrutiny and that recent presidents have neither exerted excessive influence on the appointment process nor created a politically extreme Court. He also examines the ongoing concern over presidential efforts to pack the court, concluding that stacking the ideological deck is unlikely. As an exception to the rule, Comiskey analyzes in depth the Thomas confirmation to explain why it was an aberration, offering the most detailed account yet of Thomas's pre-judicial professional and political activities. He argues that the Senate Judiciary Committee abdicated its responsibilities out of deference to Thomas's race. Another of the book's unique features is Comiskey's reassessment of the reputations of twentieth-century Supreme Court justices. Based on a survey of nearly 300 scholars in constitutional law and politics, it shows that the modern confirmation process continues to fill Court vacancies with jurists as capable as those of earlier eras. We have now seen the longest period without a turnover on the Court since the early nineteenth century, making inevitable the appointment of several new justices following the 2004 presidential election. Thus, the timing of the publication of Seeking Justices could not be more propitious.
Author: Ralph Reed Publisher: B&H Publishing Group ISBN: 1433669242 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 410
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This timely, well-informed legal/political thriller by leading conservative Ralph Reed touches on the top domestic topics--abortion and same-sex marriage--and the international issues of terrorism.
Author: Paul M. Collins Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107039703 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 313
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This book demonstrates that the hearings to confirm Supreme Court nominees are in fact a democratic forum for the discussion and ratification of constitutional change.
Author: Helena Silverstein Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1440878064 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 225
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This volume explores the many ways in which politics shapes the allegedly nonpartisan judicial system in America, ranging from how judges are selected to the bench to how they rule when they get there. Each title in the Contemporary Debates series examines the veracity of controversial claims or beliefs surrounding a major political/cultural issue in the United States. Each book gives readers a clear and unbiased understanding of current high-interest issues by informing them about falsehoods, half-truths, and misconceptions-and confirming the factual validity of other assertions-that have gained traction in America's cultural and political discourse. This volume in the series provides a deeply researched and even-handed account of the relationship between America's judicial branch-which is supposed to view law through a nonpartisan lens-and the sometimes poisonous partisanship that is such a notorious factor in the nation's other two branches of government. Is political combat over judicial nominations worse than ever before? What impact is the politicization of the courts having on public faith in the legitimacy of the courts and our wider political system? Was former Supreme Court justice Sandra Day right when she asserted that "judicial independence is a bedrock principle of our court system, and we are losing it"? This work will provide insights into all these questions and more.
Author: Stephen L. Carter
Author: Stephen L. Carter
Author: Stephen Carter
Author: Stephen L. Carter
Author: Benjamin Wittes
Author: Michael Comiskey
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Author: Ralph Reed
Author: Paul M. Collins
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Author: Helena Silverstein