Eisgruber, Christopher L.

The next justice repairing the Supreme Court appointments process / [electronic resource] : Christopher L. Eisgruber. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007. - xiii, 239 p.

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.
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United States. Supreme Court --Officials and employees--Selection and appointment.


Judges--Selection and appointment--United States.
Political questions and judicial power--United States.


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