Review Essay

Polity (2008) 40, 394–409. doi:10.1057/pol.2008.1; published online 18 February 2008

Appointing Federal Judges: Law, Politics, and Democracy

Michael Comiskey
Seeking Justices: The Judging of Supreme Court Nominees. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004.

Richard Davis
Electing Justice: Fixing the Supreme Court Nomination Process. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Lee Epstein and Jeffrey A. Segal
Advice and Consent: The Politics of Judicial Appointments. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Benjamin Wittes
Confirmation Wars: Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

Gerard J Fitzpatrick1

1Ursinus College

Keywords:

Supreme Court, federal judiciary, appointment, recruitment

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