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Confirmation bias : inside Washington's war over the Supreme Court, from Scalia's death to Justice Kavanaugh /

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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hulse, Carl (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
United States. > Supreme Court > Officials and employees > Selection and appointment.
Judges > Selection and appointment > United States.
United States. > Congress. > Senate > Powers and duties.
United States. > Supreme Court > History > 21st century.
United States > Politics and government > 2009-2017.
United States > Politics and government > 2017-
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.