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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Farganis, Dion
Other Authors: Wedeking, Justin
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]
Subjects:
United States. > Supreme Court > Officials and employees > Selection and appointment
United States. > Congress. > Senate. > Committee on the Judiciary
Judges > Selection and appointment > United States
Legislative hearings > United States
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Table of Contents:
  • A vapid and hollow charade?
  • The hearings in historical perspective
  • Coding the hearings
  • Are Supreme Court nominees forthcoming?
  • Polarized and televised : changes in committee voting since 1981
  • The perception gap
  • Can the hearings be improved? Do they need to be?

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