| #4712546 in Books | Stanford University Press | 2005-07-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.60 x6.00l,.86 | File type: PDF | 288 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A Valuable Study of Lower Court Confirmations|By Ronald H. Clark|This book is an outstanding study by a political scientist of one explanation as to why federal judicial nominations to the Courts of Appeal and district courts have become recently so confrontational and protracted. The author is an Assistant Professor at Ohio State University, as well as having had a career as||"What a splendid, and spectacularly timely, achievement! Scherer has produced the best discussion, by far, of political contests over the lower federal courts. Her discussion is full of surprises about American history, American politics, and American judges
This book explores how the lower federal court appointment process became vastly politicized in the modern era. Scherer develops a theory of “elite mobilization,” positing that lower court appointments have always been used by politicians for electoral purposes, but because of two historic changes to American institutions in the 1950s and 1960s―the breakdown of the old party system, and a federal judiciary reception to expanding individuals’ constitu...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Scoring Points: Politicians, Activists, and the Lower Federal Court Appointment Process | Nancy Scherer. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
