TY  - GEN
T1  - Supreme Court confirmation hearings in the U.S. Senate : reconsidering the charade
A1  - Farganis, Dion
A1  - Wedeking, Justin
LA  - English
PP  - Ann Arbor
PB  - The University of Michigan Press
YR  - 2014
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn877049852
AB  - Critics claim that Supreme Court nominees have become more evasive in recent decades and that Senate confirmation hearings lack real substance. Conducting a line-by-line analysis of the confirmation hearing of every nominee since 1955-an original dataset of nearly 11,000 questions and answers from testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee-Dion Farganis and Justin Wedeking discover that nominees are far more forthcoming than generally assumed. Applying an original scoring system to assess each nominee's testimony based on the same criteria, they show that some of the earliest nominees wer.
OP  - 162
CN  - KF8742 .F37 2014e
SN  - 9780472120277
SN  - 0472120271
SN  - 9781306585156
SN  - 1306585155
SN  - 9780472119332
SN  - 0472119338
KW  - United States. : Supreme Court : Officials and employees : Selection and appointment.
KW  - United States. : Congress. : Senate. : Committee on the Judiciary.
KW  - États-Unis. : Supreme Court : Fonctionnaires : Sélection et nomination.
KW  - United States. : Congress. : Senate. : Committee on the Judiciary
KW  - United States. : Supreme Court
KW  - Judges : Selection and appointment : United States.
KW  - Legislative hearings : United States.
KW  - Commissions parlementaires : Audiences : États-Unis.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Government : Legislative Branch.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : American Government : Judicial Branch.
KW  - Judges : Selection and appointment
KW  - Legislative hearings
KW  - United States
KW  - Law - U.S.
KW  - Law, Politics & Government.
KW  - Law - U.S. - General.
ER  -