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Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings and Constitutional Change

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Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings and Constitutional Change
Author: Collins, Paul M. ; Ringhand, Lori A.
Subjects: Constitutional law ; Judges ; Selection and appointment ; Supreme Court ; United States
Description: Before Supreme Court nominees are allowed to take their place on the High Court, they must face a moment of democratic reckoning by appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Despite the potential this holds for public input into the direction of legal change, the hearings are routinely derided as nothing but empty rituals and political grandstanding. In this book, Paul M. Collins and Lori A. Ringhand present a contrarian view that uses both empirical data and stories culled from more than seventy years of transcripts to demonstrate that the hearings are a democratic forum for the discussion and ratification of constitutional change. As such, they are one of the ways in which 'We the People' take ownership of the Constitution by examining the core constitutional values of those permitted to interpret it on our behalf.
Publisher: New York: Cambridge University Press
Creation Date: 2013
Format: 314
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 9781107039704
ISBN: 1107502659
ISBN: 1107039703
ISBN: 9781107502659
EISBN: 9781139626453
EISBN: 1139626450
EISBN: 1107274206
EISBN: 9781107274204
EISBN: 9781139891912
EISBN: 113989191X
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139626453
OCLC: 857364836
Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete

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