TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vieira,Norman
AU  - Gross,Leonard
TI  - Supreme Court appointments: Judge Bork and the politicization of Senate confirmations 
SN  - 0585030162
AV  - KF8742 .V54 1998eb
U1  - 347.73/2634 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Carbondale
PB  - Southern Illinois University Press
KW  - Bork, Robert H.
KW  - United States
KW  - Supreme Court
KW  - Officials and employees
KW  - Selection and appointment
KW  - History
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Fonctionnaires
KW  - Sélection et nomination
KW  - Histoire
KW  - fast
KW  - Judges
KW  - Political questions and judicial power
KW  - Politique et pouvoir judiciaire
KW  - LAW
KW  - Government
KW  - Federal
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Law - U.S. - General
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Law - U.S
KW  - Law, Politics & Government
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-299) and index; Preface -- I. The Bork nomination 1.Exit Justice Powell 2.Enter Judge Bork 3.Battle lines form 4.The first crucial issue -- II. Committee hearings 1.The judiciary committee 2.The ultimate stakes: controlling the direction of the court 3.The right of privacy: contraception, abortion, and sterilization 4.Civil rights 5.The reverend and the rabbi: church-state issues 6.Free speech 7.Ethical questions: Watergate revisited 8.The ABA 9.Other witnesses 10.The media company: polling and advertising in the confirmation process -- III. Action by the Senate 1.Mounting pressure: the uncommitted senators 2.The struggle outside 3.The senate debate: battling for history's verdict 4.The new nominees: Ginsburg and Kennedy -- IV. Judicial confirmations in the post-Bork era 1. Judge Souter: a stealth nominee 2.Clarence Thomas: round one 3.Clarence Thomas: enter Anita Hill 4.Judge Ginsburg: a democrat faces the confirmation process 5.Judge Breyer revisited 6.The Bork precedent: a search for meaning -- Notes -- Index -- About the authors; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
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