American justice 2017 : the Supreme Court in crisis /
With the death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court was plunged into crisis. Refusing to hold hearings or confirm the nominee of a Democratic president almost a year away from a presidential election, the Republican-controlled Senate held the court hostage, forcing it to do its wor...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2017]
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| Summary: | With the death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court was plunged into crisis. Refusing to hold hearings or confirm the nominee of a Democratic president almost a year away from a presidential election, the Republican-controlled Senate held the court hostage, forcing it to do its work through nearly the entire term ending in June 2017 with just eight justices. In American Justice 2017: The Supreme Court in Crisis, Kimberly Robinson examines the way individual justices and the institution as a whole reacted to this unprecedented, politically fraught situation. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 162 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0812249976 9780812249972 |