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2004013285 |
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DLC |
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| LC control number |
2004013285 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0700613463 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0700613471 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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DLC |
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DLC |
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DLC |
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EY8Z |
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| Classification number |
KF8742 |
| Item number |
.C63 2004 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
347.73/2634 |
| Edition number |
22 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Comiskey, Michael. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Seeking justices : |
| Remainder of title |
the judging of Supreme Court nominees / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Michael Comiskey. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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Lawrence, Kan. : |
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University Press of Kansas, |
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c2004. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
vii, 287 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-277) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Introduction : contrasting perspectives on the confirmation process -- The Senate's constitutional role in the confirmation process -- The politicization of the confirmation process -- The confirmation process and the quality of justices -- The confirmation of Clarence Thomas -- Unrevealing inquiries : are nominees all that stealthy? -- Court packing and an aberrant court -- Conclusion : reforming a machine that would run of itself. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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Publisher description: In the long shadows cast by the Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas nominations, Supreme Court confirmations remain highly contentious and controversial. This is due in part to the Senate's increasing reliance upon a much lengthier, much more public, and occasionally raucous confirmation process-in an effort to curb the potential excesses of executive power created by presidents seeking greater control over the Court's ideological composition. Michael Comiskey offers the most comprehensive, systematic, and optimistic analysis of that process to date. Arguing that the process works well and therefore should not be significantly altered, Comiskey convincingly counters those critics who view highly contentious confirmation proceedings as the norm. Senators have every right and a real obligation, he contends, to scrutinize the nominees' constitutional philosophies. He further argues that the media coverage of the Senate's deliberations has worked to improve the level of such scrutiny and that recent presidents have neither exerted excessive influence on the appointment process nor created a politically extreme Court. He also examines the ongoing concern over presidential efforts to pack the court, concluding that stacking the ideological deck is unlikely. As an exception to the rule, Comiskey analyzes in depth the Thomas confirmation to explain why it was an aberration, offering the most detailed account yet of Thomas's pre-judicial professional and political activities. He argues that the Senate Judiciary Committee abdicated its responsibilities out of deference to Thomas's race. Another of the book's unique features is Comiskey's reassessment of the reputations of twentieth-century Supreme Court justices. Based on a survey of nearly 300 scholars in constitutional law and politics, it shows that the modern confirmation process continues to fill Court vacancies with jurists as capable as those of earlier eras. We have now seen the longest period without a turnover on the Court since the early nineteenth century, making inevitable the appointment of several new justices following the 2004 presidential election. Thus, the timing of the publication of Seeking Justices could not be more propitious. |
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United States. |
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Supreme Court. |
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Judges |
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Selection and appointment |
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United States. |
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Law and politics. |
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