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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Hlavní autor: Eisgruber, Christopher L.
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Princeton : Princeton University Press ©2007.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7sj88
Obsah:
  • 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.