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

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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Hauptverfasser: Farganis, Dion (VerfasserIn), Wedeking, Justin (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 162 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-158) and index.
ISBN:9780472120277
0472120271
9781306585156
1306585155

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