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Supreme Court Nominations: Law Review Articles

Information and resources about the Supreme Court appointment process and specific information about the recent nominees.

Law Review Articles

Albert B. Lawrence, The Brothers Peckham and the Politics of Judicial Nomination, 39 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. 22 (2014).
Peter E. Quint, Implications of the President's Appointment Power, 73 Md. L. Rev. 85 (2013).
Joel K. Goldstein, Choosing Justices: How Presidents Decide, 26 J.L. & Pol. 425 (2011).
Kevin R. Johnson, An Essay on the Nomination and Confirmation of the First Latina Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court: The Assimilation Demand at Work, 30 Chicano-Latino L. Rev. 97 (2011).
Lori A. Ringhand, In Defense of Ideology: A Principled Approach to the Supreme Court Confirmation Process, 18 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 131 (2009).
Lee Epstein, Jeffrey A. Segal & Chad Westerland, The Increasing Importance of Ideology in the Nomination and Confirmation of Supreme Court Justices, 56 Drake L. Rev.609 (2008).
Appendix II: The Judicial Nomination Process over Time: Some Historic Background, 95 Geo. L.J. 1028 (2007).
Horace Cooper, Tilting at Windmills: The Troubling Consequences of the Modern Supreme Court Confirmation Process, 33 S.U. L. Rev. 443 (2006).
Timothy R. Johnson & Jason M. Roberts, Pivotal Politics, Presidential Capital, and Supreme Court Nominations, 32 Congress & the Presidency 31 (2005).

Law Review Articles

Steven H. Goldberg, Putting the Supreme Court Back in Place: Ideology, Yes; Agenda, No, 17 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 175 (2004).
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Michael M. Gallagher, Disarming the Confirmation Process, 50 Clev. St. L. Rev. 513 (2003).
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Charles R. Shipan and Megan L. Shannon, Delaying Justice(s): A Duration Analysis of Supreme Court Confirmations, 47 Am. J. Pol. Sci. 654 (2003).
Bruce H. Kalk, The Carswell Affair: The Politics of a Supreme Court Nomination in the Nixon Administration, 42 Am. J. Legal Hist. 261 (1998).
Ronald D. Rotunda, Innovations Disguised as Traditions: A Historical Review of the Supreme Court Nominations Process, 1995 U. Ill. L. Rev. 123.
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Paul A. Freund, Appointment of Justices: Some Historical Perspectives, 101 Harv. L. Rev. 1146 (1988).
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Nina Totenberg, The Confirmation Process and the Public: To Know or Not to Know, 101 Harv. L. Rev. 1213 (1988).
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Michael A. Kahn, Politics of the Appointment Process: An Analysis of Why Learned Hand Was Never Appointed to the Supreme Court, 25 Stan. L. Rev. 251 (1973).
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John P. Frank, The Appointment of Supreme Court Justices: Prestige, Principles, and Politics, 1941 Wis. L. Rev. 172.
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