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Advice and Consent The Politics of Judicial Appointments

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ISBN-10: 0195315839

ISBN-13: 9780195315837

Edition: N/A

Authors: Lee Epstein, Jeffrey A. Segal

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The nomination of federal judges has always generated intense political conflict, perhaps never more so than during the second presidential term of George W. Bush. In Advice and Consent, two leading legal scholars, Lee Epstein and Jeffrey A. Segal, offer a brief, illuminating Baedeker to this highly important procedure. The authors discuss everything from constitutional background to the crucial differences in the nomination of judges and justices and the role of the Judiciary Committee in vetting nominees. They also shed light on the different roles played by the media, the American Bar Association, and special interest groups in getting judges nominated--or rejected. The authors…    
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List price: $13.95
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/5/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Lee Epstein (PhD, Emory University) is Provost Professor of Law and Political Science and Rader Family Trustee Chair in Law at the University of Southern California. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She is the author, coauthor and/or editor of fifteen books, including The Supreme Court Compendium : Data, Decisions, and Developments , Fifth Edition , with Jeffrey A. Segal, Harold J. Spaeth, and Thomas G. Walker; Courts, Judges and Politics, Sixth Edition , with Walter F. Murphy, C. Herman Pritchett, and Jack Knight; The Choices Justices Make with Jack Knight, which won the C. Herman Pritchett Award for…    

Acknowledgements
Introduction
A Backdrop to Judicial Appointments
Vacancies
Nominating Federal Judges and Justices
Confirming Federal Judges and Justices
Politics, Presidents, and Judging
The Politics of Appointments Meets the Politics of Judging
Notes
Index