Justices, presidents, and senators : a history of the U.S. Supreme Court appointments from Washington to Bush II / Henry J. Abraham.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Abraham, Henry J. (Henry Julian), 1921-2020.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• United States. Supreme Court--History.
• United States. Supreme Court--Officials and employees--Selection and appointment.
• United States. Supreme Court.
• Judges--Selection and appointment--United States.
• Judges--Selection and appointment.
• History.
• United States.
• Executive power--United States.
• Executive power.
• Political questions and judicial power--United States.
• Political questions and judicial power.

Physical Description:

xiii, 439 pages : photographs ; 25 cm

Edition:

Fifth new and revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, [2008]

Summary:

Henry J. Abraham, one of the nation's preeminent scholars of the judicial branch, addresses the vital questions of why individual justices were nominated to the Supreme Court, how their nominations were received by legislators of the day, whether the appointees ultimately lived up to the expectations of the American public, and the legacy of their jurisprudence on the development of American law and society.

Contents:

• 1 Introductory Reflections: Of Criteria, Evaluations, and Judgments 1
• 2 The Nixon Era: A Turbulent Case Study 9
• 3 How They Get There: Appointing Supreme Court Justices 19
• 4 Why They Get There: Qualifications and Rationalizations 39
• 5 The First Forty Years: From George Washington to John Quincy Adams, 1789-1829 57
• 6 The Next Forty Years: From Andrew Jackson to Andrew Johnson, 1829-1869 77
• 7 The Balance of the Nineteenth Century: From Ulysses S. Grant to William McKinley, 1869-1901 101
• 8 Into the Twentieth Century: From Theodore Roosevelt to Herbert Hoover, 1901-1933 123
• 9 The Court Alters Course: FDR and Truman, 1933-1953 163
• 10 The Warren Court: From Ike to LBJ, 1953-1969 197
• 11 The Burger Court: From Nixon to Reagan, 1969-1986 233
• 12 The Rehnquist Court: Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II, 1986-2005 275
• 13 The Roberts Court: Bush II (in part) - 315
• Appendix A Rating Supreme Court Justices 373
• Appendix B Rating Presidents 377
• Appendix C Statistical Data on Supreme Court Justices 383
• Works about or by Individual Justices 390.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-419) and indexes.

ISBN:

• 9780742558953
• 0742558959

OCLC:

156822387