Confirmation Wars: Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times - Couverture rigide

Wittes, Benjamin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 074255144X ISBN 13 : 9780742551442

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2006

Synopsis

Washington Post editorial writer Benjamin Wittes examines the degradation of the judicial nominations process over the past fifty years up to the present-including the recent confirmation of Justices Roberts and Alito. Drawing on years of reporting on judicial nominations, he explains how the process has changed and how these changes threaten the independence of the courts. Getting beyond the partisan blame game, he argues that the process has changed as an institutional response by Congress to modern judicial power and urges basic reforms to better insulate the judiciary from the nastiness of contemporary politics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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 ofStarr: A Reassessment (2002).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 074255144X
• ISBN 13: 9780742551442
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 168
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• Personne responsable: non disponible