Picking Federal Judges
DOWNLOAD
Download Picking Federal Judges PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Picking Federal Judges book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Picking Federal Judges
DOWNLOAD
Author : Sheldon Goldman
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1999-09-01
Picking Federal Judges written by Sheldon Goldman and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-09-01 with Law categories.
How does a president choose the judges he appoints to the lower federal bench? In this analysis, a leading authority on lower federal court judicial selection tells the story of how nine presidents over a period of 56 years have chosen federal judges.
Picking Judges
DOWNLOAD
Author : Nancy Maveety
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Picking Judges written by Nancy Maveety and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Political Science categories.
What defines a president? Is it policymaking? A good relationship with the American people? Or is it legacy? Most would argue that legacy imprints a president in the American consciousness. A president's federal judicial appointees may be his or her most lasting political legacy. Because federal judges serve for life, their legal policymaking endures long after a president's term in office is over. Presidents who care about serving their mandate, who desire to maximize their policy agenda, and who wish to influence the nation's constitutional fabric appoint as many federal judges as possible.This new volume in the Presidential Briefings series shows how the president's appointment power has expanded beyond its bare constitutional outlines. In exercising their constitutional powers while paying heed to political opportunities, presidents and the Senate have together created our modern judicial appointment politics. Presidents consider a host of demographic and ideological factors, candidate qualities, and electoral politics.Nancy Maveety examines the dynamics of screening and choosing judicial nominees and analyses the institutional calculus in securing their confirmation in the face of senatorial obstruction. Maveety shows how a president can adapt to particular circumstances and provides an outline for synergistically staffing the federal judiciary, thus securing a legacy for all time.
Choosing Justice
DOWNLOAD
Author : Charles H. Sheldon
language : en
Publisher: Washington State University Press
Release Date : 1997
Choosing Justice written by Charles H. Sheldon and has been published by Washington State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Law categories.
How judges weigh the competing demands of public accountability and judicial independence often is influenced by the process that recruits them to the bench. In Choosing Justice, the authors provide an analytical framework for measuring how the different modes of selection influence the behavior of elected and appointed judges. Using case studies, Sheldon and Maule apply an articulation model to state and federal selection experiences in order to understand why some judges accept a degree of accountability for their policy decisions, while others feel free to ignore political pressure.
Advice And Consent
DOWNLOAD
Author : Lee Epstein
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2005-09-15
Advice And Consent written by Lee Epstein and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-15 with Political Science categories.
From Louis Brandeis to Robert Bork to Clarence Thomas, the nomination of federal judges has generated intense political conflict. With the coming retirement of one or more Supreme Court Justices--and threats to filibuster lower court judges--the selection process is likely to be, once again, the center of red-hot partisan debate. In Advice and Consent, two leading legal scholars, Lee Epstein and Jeffrey A. Segal, offer a brief, illuminating Baedeker to this highly important procedure, discussing everything from constitutional background, to crucial differences in the nomination of judges and justices, to the role of the Judiciary Committee in vetting nominees. Epstein and Segal shed light on the role played by the media, by the American Bar Association, and by special interest groups (whose efforts helped defeat Judge Bork). Though it is often assumed that political clashes over nominees are a new phenomenon, the authors argue that the appointment of justices and judges has always been a highly contentious process--one largely driven by ideological and partisan concerns. The reader discovers how presidents and the senate have tried to remake the bench, ranging from FDR's controversial "court packing" scheme to the Senate's creation in 1978 of 35 new appellate and 117 district court judgeships, allowing the Democrats to shape the judiciary for years. The authors conclude with possible "reforms," from the so-called nuclear option, whereby a majority of the Senate could vote to prohibit filibusters, to the even more dramatic suggestion that Congress eliminate a judge's life tenure either by term limits or compulsory retirement. With key appointments looming on the horizon, Advice and Consent provides everything concerned citizens need to know to understand the partisan rows that surround the judicial nominating process.
Justice Held Hostage
DOWNLOAD
Author : Citizens for Independent Courts. Task Force on Federal Judicial Selection
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Justice Held Hostage written by Citizens for Independent Courts. Task Force on Federal Judicial Selection and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Judges categories.
Literature On Judicial Selection
DOWNLOAD
Author : Nancy Chinn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Literature On Judicial Selection written by Nancy Chinn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Law categories.
Justice In The Making
DOWNLOAD
Author : Alliance for Justice. Judicial Selection Project
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Justice In The Making written by Alliance for Justice. Judicial Selection Project and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Judges categories.
Improving The Process Of Appointing Federal Judges
DOWNLOAD
Author : Miller Center Commission on the Selection of Federal Judges
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Improving The Process Of Appointing Federal Judges written by Miller Center Commission on the Selection of Federal Judges and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Judges categories.
Selecting And Confirming Federal Judges
DOWNLOAD
Author : Thomas L. Jipping
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Selecting And Confirming Federal Judges written by Thomas L. Jipping and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Judges categories.
The Behavior Of Federal Judges
DOWNLOAD
Author : Lee Epstein
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2013-01-07
The Behavior Of Federal Judges written by Lee Epstein and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-07 with Law categories.
Federal judges are not just robots or politicians in robes, yet their behavior is not well understood, even among themselves. Using statistical methods, a political scientist, an economist, and a judge construct a unified theory of judicial decision-making to dispel the mystery of how decisions from district courts to the Supreme Court are made.