Picking Federal Judges: Lower Court Selection from Roosevelt through Reagan
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0300069626 / Publisher: Yale University Press, September 1997
In this landmark book, a leading authority on lower federal court judicial selections tells the rive...
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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 Sheldon Goldman has interviewed participants, and he has mined published and unpublished government documents and archives, along with memoranda, letters, and other documents in the papers of every president from Franklin Roosevelt through Ronald Reagan, to bring to life the judicial selection process. His book is filled with richly drawn and dramatic accounts of each president's use of judicial appointments to further policy, partisan, and personal agendas. Goldman analyzes political and social changes that have occurred over the years and the impact of those changes on the profile of those selected for the bench.
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