The next justice [electronic resource] : repairing the Supreme Court appointments process / Christopher L. Eisgruber.

By: Eisgruber, Christopher LContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007Description: xiii, 239 pSubject(s): United States. Supreme Court -- Officials and employees -- Selection and appointment | Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States | Political questions and judicial power -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 347.73/2634 LOC classification: KF8742 | .E357 2007Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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