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  title info:
    title: Confirmation bias
    sub title: inside Washington's war over the Supreme Court, from Scalia's death to Justice Kavanaugh
  name:
    name part: Hulse, Carl
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: From the chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times, a richly detailed, news-breaking look at the unprecedented political fight over Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court vacancy and the seemingly irreversible dysfunction it triggered across all three branches in the nation's capital, ultimately delivering us Trump, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh. The embodiment of American conservative thought and jurisprudence, Antonin Scalia cast an expansive shadow over the Supreme Court for three decades. His death at a Texas hunting resort in February 2016 created a dilemma for Republican leadership faced with the prospect of yet another Obama Supreme Court nominee, this time one who could tip the ideological balance of the court and alter the course of American history. In this book, Carl Hulse tells an exclusive account of the rush of events following Scalia's death, including Mitch McConnell's extraordinary snap decision to deny President Obama's nominee so much as a hearing, let alone a vote. The author recounts the unsuccessful Democratic effort to break the Republican blockade on behalf of Merrick Garland, a failure that allowed Donald Trump to exploit the vacancy to entice evangelicals and other leery Republicans to rally support and deliver him the presidency. Newly empowered, Trump and his White House counsel Donald F. McGahn II moved quickly to install Neil Gorsuch on the court. The plan from the start was to have a second judge with a Republican pedigree, Brett Kavanaugh, join Gorsuch at the first opportunity in order to cement a majority conservative bloc. Aided by McConnell and the willingness of Republicans to bend Senate practices, the new administration set out to remake not only the Supreme Court, but the lower courts as well, further roiling the Senate and threatening public confidence in the federal judiciary. With unrivaled access to figures on both sides of the aisle, Hulse revisits the judicial wars of the past twenty years to show how those conflicts have le…
  table of contents: Calling the play -- A death in Texas -- "Business to attend to" -- "Of course the President is going to nominate someone" -- Playing it straight -- Pulling a Biden -- The Oval -- The list : part I -- Lack of judicial temperament -- Should ideology matter? -- Filibusted -- The gang's all here -- Battle lines -- Going nuclear -- Dumbledore -- Stalemate -- The list : part II -- Upset -- Postmortem -- Gorsuch -- One horse-sized duck -- Nuclear winter -- Giving the slip to the blue slip -- The Trump judiciary -- The Kennedy seat -- Golden boy -- Advice and dissent -- The hearing will not come to order -- The paper chase -- The letter -- "Forever change the Senate and our nation's highest court" -- Endgame -- Repercussions -- Polarized.
  note: Carl Hulse.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Supreme Court
    topic: Officials and employees
    topic: Selection and appointment
  subject:
    topic: Judges
    topic: Selection and appointment
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Congress.
      name part: Senate
    topic: Powers and duties
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Supreme Court
    topic: History
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 2009-2017
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 2017-
  classification: KF8742 .H85 2019
  classification: 347.73/26
  identifier: 9780062862914
  identifier: 006286291X
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190412
    record change date: 20191021082022.0
    record identifier: in00003989433