Eisgruber The Next Justice

Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2782-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Eisgruber, Christopher L.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Rechtswissenschaften Allgemeines Verfahrens-, Zivilprozess- und Insolvenzrecht Allgemeines Prozessrecht, Kostenrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Chapter 1. A Broken Process in Partisan Times 1

Chapter 2: Why Judges Cannot Avoid Political Controversy 17

Chapter 3: The Incoherence of Judicial Restraint 31

Chapter 4: Politics at the Court 51

Chapter 5: Why Judges Sometimes Agree When Politicians Cannot 73

Chapter 6: Judicial Philosophies and Why They Matter 98

Chapter 7: How Presidents Have Raised the Stakes 124

Chapter 8: Should the Senate Defer to the President? 144

Chapter 9: How to Change the Hearings 164

Chapter 10: What Kinds of Justices Should We Want? 178

Chapter 11: The Path Forward 186

Notes 193

Index 225

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher L. Eisgruber is president of Princeton University. He is the coauthor of Religious Freedom and the Constitution and the author of Constitutional Self-Government. He is a former New York University law professor and a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham.