The Next Justice : : Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process /

The Next Justice : : Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process / / Christopher L. Eisgruber.

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The Supreme Court appointments process is broken, and the timing couldn't be worse--for liberals or conservatives. The Court is just one more solid conservative justice away from an ideological sea change--a hard-right turn on an array of issues that affect every American, from abortion to envi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Eisgruber, Christopher L.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2007
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. A Broken Process in Partisan Times
  • 2. Why Judges Cannot Avoid Political Controversy
  • 3. The Incoherence of Judicial Restraint
  • 4. Politics at the Court
  • 5. Why Judges Sometimes Agree When Politicians Cannot
  • 6. Judicial Philosophies and Why They Matter
  • 7. How Presidents Have Raised the Stakes
  • 8. Should the Senate Defer to the President?
  • 9. How to Change the Hearings
  • 10. What Kinds of Justices Should We Want?
  • 11. The Path Forward
  • Notes
  • Index

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