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A Political Court, the Political Environment, and Appointments A Political Court, the Political Environment, and Appointments
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The Confirmation Stage The Confirmation Stage
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The Selection Stage The Selection Stage
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Future Directions Future Directions
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2 Appointing Supreme Court Justices
Get accessChristine L. Nemacheck is Associate Professor of Government at the College of William & Mary.
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Published:06 July 2017
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Abstract
This chapter assesses the literature on Supreme Court appointments and considers directions for future research. Early work on appointments tended to be in the form of broad political histories or more narrow historical accounts of individual appointments. But as the field developed, much of the work on appointments centered on the confirmation process, including the determinants of senators’ confirmation votes and presidents’ success in getting their Supreme Court nominees confirmed. Was this success due to congressional deference to the president’s appointment power? Or, did presidents’ success result from an active and anticipatory selection stage in which presidents strategically consulted with members of Congress in order to pave the way toward a smooth confirmation? To answer these questions, recent work on appointments has focused on the selection stage. The evidence seems to support the latter—presidents anticipate problems and work with members to garner support for a confirmable nominee.
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