Book Description
Explains how United States presidents select justices for the Supreme Court, evaluates the performance of each justice, and examines the influence of politics on their selection.
Author : Henry Julian Abraham
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 40,45 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742558953
Explains how United States presidents select justices for the Supreme Court, evaluates the performance of each justice, and examines the influence of politics on their selection.
Author : Douglas Clouatre
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 19,46 MB
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 076185374X
Presidents and their Justices offers an innovative look at the relationship between a president and the Supreme Court justices they appoint. Based on a 2005 survey of historians, lawyers, and political scientists that ranked presidents according to their Supreme Court appointments, the ratings offer a distinctive analysis of the relationship between presidents and the justices they appointed. Among these were Herbert Hoover, as the fifth-ranked president based on the Court nominees and Harry Truman, as one of the worst twentieth-century presidents for the justices he appointed. The book delves into presidential Court appointments and how a justice's career affects a president's legacy. Among the presidents studied are Warren Harding, Ulysses Grant, John Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Franklin Roosevelt. The work is divided into sections of great presidents who made successful appointments, great presidents who failed in their appointments, and mediocre presidents who made successful appointments.
Author : Christine L. Nemacheck
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780813927435
The process by which presidents decide whom to nominate to fill Supreme Court vacancies is obviously of far-ranging importance, particularly because the vast majority of nominees are eventually confirmed. But why is one individual selected from among a pool of presumably qualified candidates? In Strategic Selection: Presidential Nomination of Supreme Court Justices from Herbert Hoover through George W. Bush, Christine Nemacheck makes heavy use of presidential papers to reconstruct the politics of nominee selection from Herbert Hoover's appointment of Charles Evan Hughes in 1930 through President George W. Bush's nomination of Samuel Alito in 2005. Bringing to light firsthand evidence of selection politics and of the influence of political actors, such as members of Congress and presidential advisors, from the initial stages of formulating a short list through the president's final selection of a nominee, Nemacheck constructs a theoretical framework that allows her to assess the factors impacting a president's selection process. Much work on Supreme Court nominations focuses on struggles over confirmation, or is heavily based on anecdotal material and posits the "idiosyncratic" nature of the selection process; in contrast, Strategic Selection points to systematic patterns in judicial selection. Nemacheck argues that although presidents try to maximize their ideological preferences and minimize uncertainty about nominees' conduct once they are confirmed, institutional factors that change over time, such as divided government and the institutionalism of the presidency, shape and constrain their choices. By revealing the pattern of strategic action, which she argues is visible from the earliest stages of the selection process, Nemacheck takes us a long way toward understanding this critically important part of our political system.
Author : Henry Julian Abraham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
"Readable yet scholarly short history of appointees, their politics and performance throughout U.S. history."--Juricature.
Author : Paul M. Collins, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,49 MB
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108498485
Examines the relationship between the president and the Supreme Court, including how presidents view the norm of judicial independence.
Author : Henry Julian Abraham
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 18,98 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780847696055
This new edition of this classic history of the Supreme Court discusses the selection, nomination, and appointment of each of the Justices who have sat on the U.S. Supreme Court since 1789. Abraham provides a fascinating account of the presidential motivations behind each nomination, examining how each appointee's performance on the bench fulfilled, or disappointed, presidential expectations.
Author : Henry Julian Abraham
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 1974
Category : U.S. Supreme Court
ISBN :
Analysis of judicial achievements of the 100 U.S. Supreme Court Justices who served up to the year 1969, measuring actual performances against the expectations of the Presidents who appointed them.
Author : Robert Scigliano
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 35,60 MB
Release :
Category : Presidents
ISBN :
Author : David Alistair Yalof
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 2001-10-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226945460
Yalof takes the reader behind the scenes of what happens before the Senate hearings to show how presidents decide who will sit on the highest court in the land. He draws on the papers of 7 modern presidents and firsthand interviews with key figures.