SUPREME DEMOCRACY

SUPREME DEMOCRACY

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Supreme Court nomination was usually quick and painless. A president nominated a prospective Justice who was typically confirmed within ten days, and with little publicity. It was essentially a process made by elites, with almost no public involvement and relatively little debate.

Today, however, the confirmation takes 81 days on average-the latest open seat will take much longer to fill-and it is typically amedia spectacle. How did the Supreme Court nomination process become so public and so nakedly political? What forces led to the evolution of the process to its current high profile status? What does the current process look like in comparison to nominations of earlier eras in American politicalhistory? How do justices, senators, presidents, journalists, interest group leaders, and even the public interact in the contemporary Supreme Court nomination process? Finally, what does the future portend and what reforms could be implemented to improve the process? In Supreme Court Nominations in an Age of Democracy, Richard Davis, an eminent scholar of American politics and the courts, traces the history of nominations from the early republic to the present, focusing in particular on how changes in the process have affected the two central institutions involved: the presidency and the Senate. He breaks the process down into its components and examines them one by one: the presidential nomination stage, the confirmation management process, therole of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the increasing involvement over time of interest groups, television networks, Internet commentators, and-more broadly-public opinion.

From there, Davis analyzes how the transformation of the process in recent years has affected both the Senate and the presidency. Asa consequence of these changes, the Senate has seen its internal procedures and rules change. It has also affected relations between the two parties within the instituti

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ISBN: 978-0-19-065696-6
BarCode: 9780190656966
Εκδότης: Oxford University Press
Ημερομηνία Έκδοσης: 07-2017
Εξώφυλλο: Hardback
Σελίδες: 288
Δραστηριότητα: Ξενόγλωσσα
Οικογένεια: Ξενόγλωσσα Λογοτεχνικά
Ομάδα: Αγγλικά

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