The next justice [electronic resource] : repairing the Supreme Court appointments process / Christopher L. Eisgruber.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007.Description: xiii, 239 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 347.73/2634 22
LOC classification:
  • KF8742 .E357 2007eb
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Contents:
A broken process in partisan times -- Why judges cannot avoid political controversy -- The incoherence of judicial restraint -- Politics at the court -- Why judges sometimes agree when politicians cannot -- Judicial philosophies and why they matter -- How presidents have raised the stakes -- Should the Senate defer to the president? -- How to change the hearings -- What kinds of justices should we want? -- The path forward.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A broken process in partisan times -- Why judges cannot avoid political controversy -- The incoherence of judicial restraint -- Politics at the court -- Why judges sometimes agree when politicians cannot -- Judicial philosophies and why they matter -- How presidents have raised the stakes -- Should the Senate defer to the president? -- How to change the hearings -- What kinds of justices should we want? -- The path forward.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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