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: Essentially Contested AmericaWhy Senate Confirmation Hearings Must be Reformed
By Robert Justin Lipkin
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The conventional justification for nominating and confirming federal judges, especially Supreme Court Justices with left tenure, is that this process provides some form of democratic accountability by having the elected branches selecting the members of the Court. Because once Justices are confirmed no further realistic accountability availability, in my own view, the conventional justification is [...]Full post as published by Essentially Contested America on June 01, 2009 (boomark / email).
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