Role of home-state senators in the selection of lower federal court judges
By: Denis Steven Rutkus, author.
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604569544
Subjects: United States. -- Congress. -- Senate. -- Powers and duties; Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States
Table of contents: title: Background and origins of senators recommending role; title: The senate's exercise of advice and consent; title: Role for senators in selecting nominees linked to their states; title: Senatorial courtesy; title: Blue slip policy of Senate Judiciary Committee; title: Senators' party affiliations and their recommending role when one senator is of the president's party; title: When both senators are of the president's party; title: When neither senator is of the president's party; title: The customary model : officials in the state who are of the president's party; title: Play the primary; title: Recommending role exceptions to the customary model : where senators play a primary recommending role; title: Lesser role for senators when recommending circuit court candidates; title: Selecting judicial candidates to recommend; title: Learning of the vacancy relationship with the other home state senator.