Book Description
How much do Supreme Court nominees reveal at their confirmation hearings, and how do their answers affect senators' votes?
Author : Dion Farganis
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 10,38 MB
Release : 2014-03-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 0472119338
How much do Supreme Court nominees reveal at their confirmation hearings, and how do their answers affect senators' votes?
Author : Dion Farganis
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 2014-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472120271
Critics claim that Supreme Court nominees have become more evasive in recent decades and that Senate confirmation hearings lack real substance. Conducting a line-by-line analysis of the confirmation hearing of every nominee since 1955—an original dataset of nearly 11,000 questions and answers from testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee—Dion Farganis and Justin Wedeking discover that nominees are far more forthcoming than generally assumed. Applying an original scoring system to assess each nominee’s testimony based on the same criteria, they show that some of the earliest nominees were actually less willing to answer questions than their contemporary counterparts. Factors such as changes in the political culture of Congress and the 1981 introduction of televised coverage of the hearings have created the impression that nominee candor is in decline. Further, senators’ votes are driven more by party and ideology than by a nominee’s responsiveness to their questions. Moreover, changes in the confirmation process intersect with increasing levels of party polarization as well as constituents’ more informed awareness and opinions of recent Supreme Court nominees.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 1983
Category : District courts
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Author : Paul M. Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,99 MB
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107039703
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 : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 41,65 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Judges
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
Page : 1358 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Judges
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Author : Paul M. Collins Jr
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 1503636895
In Supreme Bias, Christina L. Boyd, Paul M. Collins, Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand present for the first time a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of race and gender at the Supreme Court confirmation hearings held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Drawing on their deep knowledge of the confirmation hearings, as well as rich new qualitative and quantitative evidence, the authors highlight how the women and people of color who have sat before the Committee have faced a significantly different confirmation process than their white male colleagues. Despite being among the most qualified and well-credentialed lawyers of their respective generations, female nominees and nominees of color face more skepticism of their professional competence, are subjected to stereotype-based questioning, are more frequently interrupted, and are described in less-positive terms by senators. In addition to revealing the disturbing extent to which race and gender bias exist even at the highest echelon of U.S. legal power, this book also provides concrete suggestions for how that bias can be reduced in the future.
Author : Ilya Shapiro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 28,64 MB
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1684510724
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021: POLITICS BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL "A must-read for anyone interested in the Supreme Court."—MIKE LEE, Republican senator from Utah Politics have always intruded on Supreme Court appointments. But although the Framers would recognize the way justices are nominated and confirmed today, something is different. Why have appointments to the high court become one of the most explosive features of our system of government? As Ilya Shapiro makes clear in Supreme Disorder, this problem is part of a larger phenomenon. As government has grown, its laws reaching even further into our lives, the courts that interpret those laws have become enormously powerful. If we fight over each new appointment as though everything were at stake, it’s because it is. When decades of constitutional corruption have left us subject to an all-powerful tribunal, passions are sure to flare on the infrequent occasions when the political system has an opportunity to shape it. And so we find the process of judicial appointments verging on dysfunction. Shapiro weighs the many proposals for reform, from the modest (term limits) to the radical (court-packing), but shows that there can be no quick fix for a judicial system suffering a crisis of legitimacy. And in the end, the only measure of the Court’s legitimacy that matters is the extent to which it maintains, or rebalances, our constitutional order.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 46,58 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Judges
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Courts
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