Big Government Causes Partisanship in Judicial Nominations

Abstract:     
This Article is an edited transcript of a presentation I gave at the annual Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy symposium on “Hyper-Partisanship and the Law” on March 20, 2012. I argue that nothing is wrong with the judicial nomination/confirmation process per se, but that its politicization is a function of the growth of the federal government beyond its constitutional parameters.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 7

Keywords: judges, nominations, Supreme Court, partisanship, Constitution

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