Pathways to the US Supreme Court : from the arena to the monastery /
"As the arbiter of the Constitution, it is presumed that the US Supreme Court decrees 'the law of the land' in a fair-minded and even-handed manner. Key decisions in the Court's history have challenged these assumptions, giving way to a greater discussion about how judges are cho...
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Whither the Supreme Court
- Building supreme courts
- The arena and the monastery : four career paths to the Supreme Court
- Court paths and confirmation patterns
- From consensus to conflict, 1937-2010
- How courts change
- Presidential court changers
- Stormy weather ahead