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This book uncovers and describes media coverage of the Supreme Court and compares it to the Court's actual work, its members, and the confirmation hearings. Analyzing media coverage of nominations and confirmation hearings, the justices' 'extra-curricular' activities and their retirements/deaths, and the Court's opinions and comparing this coverage to analyses of confirmation transcripts and the Court's full docket, Rorie Spill Solberg and Eric N. Waltenburg contend that media now cover the Court and its personnel more similarly to its coverage of other political institutions.
List of contents
1. Introduction: The Myths of the Court 2. Confirmation and the "Cult of Personality" 3. The Decisional Myth 4. The Decisional Myth, Part 2 – The Landmark Cases 5. The Personal Myth 6. Conclusion: Processing the Myths of the Court
About the author
Rorie Spill Solberg is an associate professor in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University. She is widely published in journals such as
Political Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Policy Studies Quarterly, and the
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. In 2011, she was selected to edit
Judicature, the journal of the American Judicature Society. She received her PhD in American politics with a specialty in judicial politics from The Ohio State University in 1997.
Eric N. Waltenburg is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University. His research interests concern judicial politics and state politics. He has published in such journals as
American Politics Research,
Political Behavior, and
Social Science Quarterly, and he is the author or co-author of three books on judicial politics. He is a co-editor of
Politics, Groups, and Identities, the official journal of the Western Political Science Association. He received his PhD from The Ohio State University in 1994 in American Politics, with a focus on Judicial Politics.
