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Author Eisgruber, Christopher L.

Title The next justice [electronic resource] : repairing the Supreme Court appointments process / Christopher L. Eisgruber.

Imprint Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007.

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Description xiii, 239 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject United States. Supreme Court -- Officials and employees -- Selection and appointment.
Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States.
Political questions and judicial power -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780691134970 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0691134979 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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