Confirmation Wars - Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times

Informationen zum Autor Benjamin Wittes , senior fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution, is author of Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror and Starr: A Reassessment . His writings have appeared in a wide range of journals and magazines including Slate , The New Republic , The Wilson Quarterly , and The Weekly Standard . Klappentext Just in time for the first Supreme Court confirmation of the Obama administration, one of America's most insightful legal commentators updates the critically acclaimed Confirmation Wars: Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times to place the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor in the context of the changing nature of judicial nominations by recent presidents. Our system has gone from one in which people like Sotomayor or recent highly qualified nominees like John Roberts and Samuel Alito are shoe-ins for confirmation to a system in which they are shoe-ins for confirmation confrontations. While rejecting parodies offered by both the Right and Left of the decline of the process by which the United States Senate confirms-or rejects-the president's nominees to the federal judiciary, Wittes explains why and how this change took place. He argues that the trade has been a bad one-offering only the crudest check on executive appointments to the judiciary and putting nominees in the most untenable and unfair situations. Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution

About the author

Benjamin Wittes is a Fellow and Research Director in Public Law at the Brookings Institution and a member of the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law. He is also the author of Starr: A Reassessment (2002).

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Wittes, Wittes Benjamin
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.08.2009
• EAN: 9781442201545
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-0154-5
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Hoover Studies in Politics, Ec; Hoover Studies in Politics, Economics, and Society
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Judicial Branch, Political structures: democracy, United States of America, USA, Central / national / federal government, Central government, Political structures / systems: democracy