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Book Reviews, Lawrence M. Friedman, Allaire U. Karzon
Book Reviews, Lawrence M. Friedman, Allaire U. Karzon
Vanderbilt Law Review
The Politics of Justice: Lower Federal Judicial Selection and the Second Party System - Book Author: Kermit L. Hall; Book Reviewed by Lawrence M. Friedman
In The Politics of Justice, Kermit L. Hall, a history professor at Wayne State University, takes a look at the way Presidents from Jackson through Buchanan picked judges for the federal district courts and for the territories. There were 240 such appointments during the period studied...
There is something of a literature on the selection process,"although Hall's book does fill a rather glaring hole. The tale Hall tells rings true if we ignore a few …