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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Autores principales: Farganis, Dion (Autor), Wedeking, Justin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United States. > Supreme Court.
United States. > Congress. > Senate. > Committee on the Judiciary.
États-Unis. > Supreme Court > Fonctionnaires > Selection et nomination.
United States. > Supreme Court > Officials and employees > Selection and appointment.
Law - U.S. - General.
Law, Politics & Government.
Law - U.S.
Legislative hearings.
Judges > Selection and appointment.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > Judicial Branch.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
Commissions parlementaires > Audiences > États-Unis.
Legislative hearings > United States.
Judges > Selection and appointment > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
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 (174 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780472120277

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