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Full-Text Articles in Law
Justices At Home: Three Supreme Court Memoirs, Laura K. Ray
Justices At Home: Three Supreme Court Memoirs, Laura K. Ray
Laura K. Ray
No abstract provided.
Judging The Justices: A Supreme Court Performance Review, Laura K. Ray
Judging The Justices: A Supreme Court Performance Review, Laura K. Ray
Laura K. Ray
No abstract provided.
Disarming The Confirmation Process, Michael M. Gallagher
Disarming The Confirmation Process, Michael M. Gallagher
Cleveland State Law Review
To improve the current process and eliminate the bitter nature of confirmation hearings, Senators should not consider a nominee's ideology in determining whether to vote for that nominee. Ideological scrutiny lacks historical and constitutional support; it has led to repeated, prolonged battles that threaten to draw the confirmation process into a dangerous stalemate. Removing ideology from judicial nominations would return the confirmation process to its original understanding, one in which the President enjoys the dominant role. Those who argue that allowing the President, not the Senate, to consider a nominee's ideology would harm the federal judiciary and ignore the nature …
Justice Ginsburg And The Middle Way, Laura K. Ray
State Laws And The Independent Judiciary: An Analysis Of The Effects Of The Seventeenth Amendment On The Number Of Supreme Court Cases Holding State Laws Unconstitutional, Donald J. Kochan
Donald J. Kochan
In recent years, the Seventeenth Amendment has been the subject of legal scholarship, congressional hearings and debate, Supreme Court opinions, popular press articles and commentary, state legislative efforts aimed at repeal, and activist repeal movements. To date, the literature on the effects of the Seventeenth Amendment has focused almost exclusively on the effects on the political production of legislation and competition between legislative bodies. Very little attention has been given to the potential adverse effects of the Seventeenth Amendment on the relationship between state legislatures and the federal courts. This Article seeks to fill part of that literature gap, applying …