Supreme Court confirmation hearings in the U.S. Senate : reconsidering the charade /

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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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Farganis, Dion (Autor), Wedeking, Justin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]
Temas:
United States. > Supreme Court > Officials and employees > Selection and appointment.
United States. > Congress. > Senate. > Committee on the Judiciary.
États-Unis. > Supreme Court > Fonctionnaires > Sélection et nomination.
United States. > Congress. > Senate. > Committee on the Judiciary
United States. > Supreme Court
Judges > Selection and appointment > United States.
Legislative hearings > United States.
Commissions parlementaires > Audiences > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > Judicial Branch.
Judges > Selection and appointment
Legislative hearings
Law - U.S.
Law, Politics & Government.
Law - U.S. - General.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 162 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-158) and index.
ISBN:9780472120277
0472120271
9781306585156
1306585155

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