Supreme Court Nominations: Books

Character and the constitution: politics in the Supreme Court confirmation process; For the soul of the Supreme Court: the 1916 nomination of Louis D. Brandeis; From property rights to human rights: the Hughes and Parker nominations of 1930; The character of civil rights: the Thurgood Marshall nomination; Nixon's southern strategy and the Supreme Court: the Haynsworth and Carswell nominations; "Bork's America": Supreme Court confirmations as political spectacle; The future of Supreme Court confirmations: beyond Bork.

A broken process; Traditional versus new players; The politics of judicial selection; How the process broke: the transformation of the Supreme Court appointment process; New roles for external players; Today's nomination process: the battle over image; Reforming the process.

Explains how United States presidents select justices for the Supreme Court, evaluates the performance of each justice, and examines the influence of politics on their selection.

An overview of the Supreme Court nomination process; Uncertainty and strategic action as a theoretical framework; Presidents' short lists; Selective listening: congressional endorsements and compiling the short list; The scope of the debate: advising the president; Strategic selection: the final choice; Implications of strategic selection.

Day's end; Settling for Tony; False hopes; The devil you don't; "The youngest, cruelest justice"; Change of heart; The Clinton way; The natural; "Except he's not a woman"; "Trust me"; Deconstructing Miers; A full count.

Supreme Court nominations not confirmed, 1789-2001 / Henry B. Hogue; The Supreme Court appointment process: should it be reformed? / Denis Steven Rutkus; Professional qualifications for appointment to the federal judiciary / P.L. Morgan; Recess appointments of federal judges / Louis Fisher.