Does anyone have anything good to say about the absurd process by which we select Supreme Court justices? Confirmation hearings have become a mix of Grand Guignol and hide-and-seek. The debates surrounding potential justices are not only ideologically polarized, but filled with crude and misleading claims about what Supreme Court justices do or should do. And the candidates the (...)
June 06, 2008
Books
Supreme Fictions
The Next JusticeRepairing the Supreme Court Appointments ProcessChristopher L. EisgruberPrinceton University Press, $27.95, 272 pp.
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