TY - BOOK ID - 78074897 TI - Confirmation wars PY - 2009 SN - 1299453422 144220155X 9781442201552 9781442201545 1442201541 PB - Lanham, Md. Stanford, Calif. Rowman & Littlefield Published in cooperation with Hoover Institution DB - UniCat KW - Judges KW - Judicial power KW - Selection and appointment UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78074897 AB - In Confirmation Wars, Benjamin Wittes examines the degradation of the judicial nominations process over the past fifty years. Drawing on years of reporting on judicial nominations, including numerous interviews with nominees and sitting judges, he explains how the process has changed and how these changes threaten the independence of the courts. Getting beyond the partisan blame game that dominates most discussion of nominations, he argues that the process has changed as an institutional response by Congress to modern judicial power and urges basic reforms to better insulate the judiciary from the nastiness of contemporary politics. ER -