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The next Justice : repairing the Supreme Court appointments process / Christopher L. Eisgruber.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eisgruber, Christopher L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Supreme Court--Officials and employees--Selection and appointment.
- United States.
- United States. Supreme Court.
- Judges--Selection and appointment--United States.
- Judges.
- Judges--Selection and appointment.
- Political questions and judicial power--United States.
- Political questions and judicial power.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 239 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2007]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-224) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691134970
- 0691134979
- OCLC:
- 124074888
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