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Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings and Constitutional Change
Paul M. Collins
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Description for Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings and Constitutional Change
Paperback. This book demonstrates that the hearings to confirm Supreme Court nominees are in fact a democratic forum for the discussion and ratification of constitutional change. Num Pages: 314 pages, 20 b/w illus. 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNAA; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 452.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
Number of Pages
314
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107502659
SKU
V9781107502659
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About Paul M. Collins
Paul M. Collins is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas. His research focuses on judicial politics, with a particular interest in the democratic nature of the courts. The recipient of numerous research awards, he has published articles in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, the Journal of Politics, Law and Social Inquiry, the Law and ... Read more
Reviews for Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings and Constitutional Change
'Conventional wisdom suggests that confirmation hearings of the Supreme Court justices before the Senate Judiciary Committee are broken, but Collins and Ringhand present a sophisticated, empirically grounded argument that suggests that they are not … This book is a game changer. Summing up: highly recommended.' J. R. Vile, Choice 'Collins and Ringhand's Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings and Constitutional Change is ... Read more