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Picking federal judges : lower court selection from Roosevelt through Reagan / Sheldon Goldman.

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In this landmark book, a leading authority on lower federal court judicial selections tells the riveting story of how nine presidents over a period of fifty-six years have chosen federal judges. Sheldon Goldman has interviewed participants, and he has mined published and unpublished government docum...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Goldman, Sheldon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1997.
Subjects:
Judges > Selection and appointment > United States > History.
District courts > Officials and employees > Selection and appointment > United States > History.
Judges > Selection and appointment.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Judicial Selection in Theoretical and Historical Perspective
  • 2. Roosevelt Remakes the Courts
  • 3. Truman Carries On
  • 4. Eisenhower Takes Charge
  • 5. The New Frontier/Great Society Judiciary
  • 6. Picking Judges in the Shadow of Watergate
  • 7. Carter Reforms Judicial Selection
  • 8. Reaganizing the Judiciary
  • 9. Summing Up over Fifty-Six Years.

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