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Writing the Book of Judges

Part 2: Confirmation Politics in the 113th Congress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2022

Elliot Slotnick ,
Sara Schiavoni  and
Sheldon Goldman
Elliot Slotnick
Affiliation:
The Ohio State University
Sara Schiavoni*
Affiliation:
John Carroll University
Sheldon Goldman
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
*
Contact the corresponding author, Sara Schiavoni, at sschiavoni@jcu.edu.
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Abstract

Building on the empirical portrait of federal judicial selection processes and outcomes in the 113th Congress published in part 1, we now turn to in-depth analyses, drawing on extensive interview data, of the confirmation battle over confirmations to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, filibuster reform (the nuclear option) and its consequences, the role of the blue slip system in contemporary judicial selection, case studies of selection successes and failures, and the historic impact of the Obama appointments record on patterns of diversity and partisanship on the federal bench.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Law and Courts , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , Spring 2016 , pp. 187 - 242
Copyright
© 2016 by the Law and Courts Organized Section of the American Political Science Association. All rights reserved.

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Footnotes

This article was corrected and reposted on May 18, 2016. An erratum will be published in the Fall 2016 issue (vol. 4, no. 2).

References

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Slotnick, Elliot, Sheldon Goldman, and Sara Schiavoni. 2015. “Writing the Book of Judges: Part 1: Obama’s Judicial Appointments Record after Six Years.” Journal of Law and Courts 3 (2): 331–67.CrossRefGoogle Scholar