The next justice : repairing the Supreme Court appointments process /
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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Princeton :
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| Acesso em linha: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7sj88 |
Sumário:
- 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.