Judicial Appointments and Democratic Controls

by Mitchel A. Sollenberger

The Constitution provides that the president "shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint" federal judges, but that language is not precise and leaves much to the imagination. At various points in time Congress and the president have battled over how to exercise joined responsibility in making judicial appointments. Some argue that the founding fathers would have found the increased tension between the branches...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594607850
• ISBN13: 9781594607851
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Length: 273 Pages