Shelf 5 of 8 · The Senate’s Graveyard

Nomination & Confirmation Battles

The Senate’s graveyard and its spectacles — from Bork through Thomas–Hill to Kavanaugh.

The reading list — 61 books

Tribe, Laurence H. God Save This Honorable Court: How the Choice of Supreme Court Justices Shapes Our History. 1985.

Bronner, Ethan. Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America. 1989.

Greenburg, Jan Crawford. Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court. 2007.

Simon, Paul. Advice & Consent: Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork, and the Intriguing History of the Supreme Court’s Nomination Battles. 1992.

Mayer, Jane, and Jill Abramson. Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas. 1994.

Danforth, John C. Resurrection: The Confirmation of Clarence Thomas. 1994.

Hill, Anita. Speaking Truth to Power. 1997.

Phelps, Timothy M., and Helen Winternitz. Capitol Games: Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill, and the Story of a Supreme Court Nomination. 1992.

Brock, David. The Real Anita Hill: The Untold Story. 1993.

Morrison, Toni, ed. Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality. 1992.

Hemingway, Mollie, and Carrie Severino. Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court. 2019.

Pogrebin, Robin, and Kate Kelly. The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation. 2019.

Lovelace, Ryan. Search and Destroy: Inside the Campaign against Brett Kavanaugh. 2019.

Shogan, Robert. A Question of Judgment: The Fortas Case and the Struggle for the Supreme Court. 1972.

Haygood, Wil. Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America. 2015.

Glen, Patrick J. “Harvard and Yale Ascendant: The Legal Education of the Justices From Holmes to Kagan” — UCLA Law Review Discourse 58: 129–154. 2010.

Abraham, Henry J. Justices, Presidents, and Senators: A History of the U.S. Supreme Court Appointments from Washington to Bush II. 2008.

Blaustein, Albert P., and Roy M. Mersky. The First One Hundred Justices: Statistical Studies on the Supreme Court of the United States. 1978.

Yalof, David Alistair. Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees. 1999.

Goldman, Sheldon. Picking Federal Judges: Lower Court Selection from Roosevelt through Reagan. 1997.

Maltese, John Anthony. The Selling of Supreme Court Nominees. 1995.

Silverstein, Mark. Judicious Choices: The New Politics of Supreme Court Confirmations. 2007.

Epstein, Lee, and Jeffrey A. Segal. Advice and Consent: The Politics of Judicial Appointments. 2005.

Gibson, James L., and Gregory A. Caldeira. Citizens, Courts, and Confirmations: Positivity Theory and the Judgments of the American People. 2009.

Stone, Geoffrey R. “Understanding Supreme Court Confirmations” — Supreme Court Review 2010: 381–467. 2010.

Comiskey, Michael. Seeking Justices: The Judging of Supreme Court Nominees. 2004.

Ewing, Cortez A. M. The Judges of the Supreme Court, 1789–1937: A Study of Their Qualifications. 1938.

Frank, John P. Clement Haynsworth, the Senate, and the Supreme Court. 1991.

Davis, Richard. Electing Justice: Fixing the Supreme Court Nomination Process. 2005.

Gitenstein, Mark. Matters of Principle: An Insider's Account of America's Rejection of Robert Bork's Nomination to the Supreme Court. 1992.

Goings, Kenneth W. The NAACP Comes of Age: The Defeat of Judge John J. Parker. 1990.

Jacobstein, J. Myron, and Roy M. Mersky. The Rejected: Sketches of the 26 Men Nominated for the Supreme Court but Not Confirmed by the Senate. 1993.

Karfunkel, Thomas, and Thomas W. Ryley. The Jewish Seat: Anti-Semitism and the Appointment of Jews to the Supreme Court. 1978.

Massaro, John. Supremely Political: The Role of Ideology and Presidential Management in Unsuccessful Supreme Court Nominations. 1990.

Pertschuk, Michael, and Wendy Schaetzel. The People Rising: The Campaign against the Bork Nomination. 1989.

McGuigan, Patrick B., and Dawn M. Weyrich. Ninth Justice: The Fight for Bork. 1990.

Bader, William D., and Roy M. Mersky, comps. The First One Hundred Eight Justices. 2004.

United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. What Is Wrong with the Supreme Court: The Big-Money Assault on Our Judiciary: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 117th Congress, 1st Session, March 10, 2021. 2025.

McMahon, Kevin J. A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other: The Deepening Divide between the Justices and the People. 2024.

Cameron, Charles M., and Jonathan P. Kastellec. Making the Supreme Court: The Politics of Appointments, 1930-2020. 2023.

Boyd, Christina L., Paul M. Collins, Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand. Supreme Bias: Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings. 2023.

United States House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. Maintaining Judicial Independence and the Rule of Law: Examining the Causes and Consequences of Court Capture: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, 116th Congress, 2nd Session, September 22, 2020. 2022.

Whitehouse, Sheldon, and Jennifer Mueller. The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court. 2022.

Hulse, Carl. Confirmation Bias: Inside Washington's War Over the Supreme Court, from Scalia's Death to Justice Kavanaugh. 2019.

Calmes, Jackie. Dissent: The Radicalization of the Republican Party and Its Capture of the Court. 2021.

Shapiro, Ilya. Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America's Highest Court. 2020.

Barton, Benjamin H. The Credentialed Court: Inside the Cloistered, Elite World of American Justice. 2022.

Jefferson, Renee Knake, and Hannah Brenner Johnson. Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court. 2020.

Bobelian, Michael. Battle for the Marble Palace: Abe Fortas, Earl Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Forging of the Modern Supreme Court. 2019.

DePlato, Justin P., with Matthew M. Markulin. The United States Supreme Court and Politics: Judicial Retirements, the Docket, and the Nomination Process. 2019.

Davis, Richard. Supreme Democracy: The End of Elitism in Supreme Court Nominations. 2017.

Farganis, Dion, and Justin Wedeking. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings in the U.S. Senate: Reconsidering the Charade. 2014.

Collins, Paul M., Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings and Constitutional Change. 2013.

Nelson, Garrison. Pathways to the US Supreme Court: From the Arena to the Monastery. 2013.

Heath, James O. To Face Down Dixie: South Carolina's War on the Supreme Court in the Age of Civil Rights. 2017.

Eisgruber, Christopher L. The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process. 2007.

Nemacheck, Christine L. Strategic Selection: Presidential Nomination of Supreme Court Justices from Herbert Hoover through George W. Bush. 2007.

Parry-Giles, Trevor. The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, and Politics in the Supreme Court Confirmation Process. 2006.

Clouatre, Douglas. Presidents and Their Justices. 2010.

Lane, Frederick S. The Court and the Cross: The Religious Right's Crusade to Reshape the Supreme Court. 2008.

Bolick, Clint. Two-Fer: Electing a President and a Supreme Court. 2012.

Also listed in Martin & Goehlert and the JSCH Index: 110 further works

Works listed under this heading in Martin & Goehlert and the JSCH Index that have not been read for these pages. Each is given as cited there, with a note on where a copy can be had; none carries a review. The numbers are Martin & Goehlert entry numbers.

  1. Abraham, Henry J., and Bruce Allen Murphy. “The Influence of Sitting and Retired Justices on Presidential Supreme Court Nominations.” Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 3 (Winter 1976): 37-63.[Free online]M&G 6003 Read it →
  2. Abraham, Henry J., and Edward M. Goldberg. “A Note on the Appointment of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.” American Bar Association Journal 46 (February 1960): 147-150, 219-222.[Citation only]M&G 6005
  3. Ashby, John B. “Supreme Court Appointments since 1937.” Ph.D. diss., University of Notre Dame, 1972.[Citation only]M&G 6006
  4. “Attorney General Mitchell Terminates Association's Advance Screening of Supreme Court Nominees.” American Bar Association Journal 57 (December 1971): 1175-1179.[Citation only]M&G 6007
  5. Beiser, Edward N. “The Haynsworth Affair Reconsidered: The Significance of Conflicting Perceptions of the Judicial Role.” Vanderbilt Law Review 23 (March 1970): 263-292.[Free online]M&G 6008 Read it →
  6. Black, Forrest R. “Should the Senate Pass on the Social and Economic Views of Nominees to the Supreme Court of the United States?” St. John's Law Review 6 (May 1932): 257-271.[Free online]M&G 6010 Read it →
  7. Black, Forrest R. “The Role of the United States Senate in Passing on the Nominations to Membership in the Supreme Court of the United States.” Kentucky Law Journal 19 (March 1931): 226-238.[Citation only]M&G 6009
  8. Brownstein, Ronald. “With or without Supreme Court Changes, Reagan Will Reshape the Federal Bench.” National Journal 16 (December 8, 1984): 2338-2341.[Citation only]M&G 6011
  9. Bryden, David P. “How to Select a Supreme Court Justice: The Case of Robert Bork.” American Scholar 57 (Spring 1988): 210-217.[Citation only]M&G 6012
  10. Burke, Richard K. “The Path to the Court: A Study of Federal Judicial Appointments.” Master's thesis, Vanderbilt University, 1958.[Citation only]M&G 6013
  11. Cadman, Wilson K. Distribution of Nominations and Appointments to the United States Supreme Court. Wichita, KS: n.p., 1951.[Citation only]M&G 6014
  12. Carter, Stephen. “The Confirmation Mess.” Harvard Law Review 101 (April 1988): 1185-1201.[Citation only]M&G 6015
  13. Chase, Harold W. Federal Judges: The Appointing Process. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1972.[Citation only]M&G 6016
  14. Clark, Walter. “The Election of Federal Judges by the People.” Albany Law Journal 67 (August 1905): 235-237.[Citation only]M&G 6017
  15. Cohen, Richard E. “Conservatives Step Up Efforts to Promote Reagan-Minded Judges to U.S. Bench.” National Journal 17 (July 6, 1985): 1560-1563.[Citation only]M&G 6018
  16. Cole, Kenneth C. “The Role of the Senate in the Confirmation of Judicial Nominations.” American Political Science Review 28 (October 1934): 875-894.[Citation only]M&G 6019
  17. Commager, Henry S. “Choosing Supreme Court Judges.” New Republic 162 (May 2, 1970): 13-16.[Citation only]M&G 6020
  18. Cook, Beverly B. “The First Woman Candidate for the Supreme Court: Florence E. Allen.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1981 (1981): 19-35.[Citation only]M&G 6021
  19. Daniel, Josiah M., III. “'Chief Justice of the United States': History and Historiography of the Title.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1983 (1983): 109-112.[Citation only]M&G 6023
  20. Daniels, William J. “Geographic Factor in Appointments to United States Supreme Court: 1789-1976.” Western Political Quarterly 31 (June 1978): 226-237.[Citation only]M&G 6024
  21. Davies, Ross E. “With a Little Help, But Not Quite Enough, From Nine Friends: The Appointment and Disappointment of the Official Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals.” Journal of Supreme Court History 50, no. 1 (2025): 26–53.[Online, restricted]
  22. Dynia, Philip A. “Senate Rejection of Supreme Court Nominees: Factors Affecting Rejection, 1795-1972.” Ph.D. diss., Georgetown University, 1973.[Citation only]M&G 6025
  23. Erickson, William H. “The Impact of the Judicial Confirmation Process on the U.S. Supreme Court.” Colorado Law Review 17 (February 1988): 223-224.[Citation only]M&G 6026
  24. Flower, Frank A. Edwin McMasters Stanton, the Autocrat of Rebellion, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. New York: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1905.[Citation only]M&G 6028
  25. Frank, John P. “Judicial Appointments: Controversy and Accomplishment.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1977 (1977): 79-85.[Citation only]M&G 6030
  26. Frank, John P. “Supreme Court Justice Appointments II.” Wisconsin Law Review 1941 (May 1941): 343-379.[Citation only]M&G 6032
  27. Frank, John P. “Supreme Court Justice Appointments.” Wisconsin Law Review 1941 (March 1941): 172-210.[Citation only]M&G 6031
  28. Frank, John P. “The Appointment of Supreme Court Justices: Prestige, Principles, and Politics.” Wisconsin Law Review 1941 (March 1941): 172-210; (May 1941): 343-379; (July 1941): 461-512.[Citation only]M&G 6029
  29. Friedman, Richard D. “The Transformation in Senate Response to Supreme Court Nominations: From Reconstruction to the Taft Administration and Beyond.” Cardozo Law Review 5 (Fall 1983): 1-95.[Citation only]M&G 6033
  30. Friedman, Richard D. “Tribal Myths: Ideology and the Confirmation of Supreme Court Nominations.” Yale Law Journal 95 (May 1986): 1283-1320.[Citation only]M&G 6034
  31. Friendly, Fred W. “The Federal Judiciary: What Role Politics?” Judicature 68 (April/May 1985): 330-336.[Citation only]M&G 6035
  32. Gest, Ted. “Reagan's Court: Two Steps to the Right.” U.S. News and World Report 100 (June 30, 1986): 16-19.[Citation only]M&G 6036
  33. Goff, John S. “Rejection of United States Supreme Court Appointments.” American Journal of Legal History 5 (October 1961): 357-368.[Citation only]M&G 6037
  34. Gorham, George C. Life and Public Services of Edwin M. Stanton. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1899.[Citation only]M&G 6038
  35. Grachek, Arthur F. “United States Senate Debate on Supreme Court Nominations between 1925 and 1970.” Ph.D. diss., Wayne State University, 1974.[Citation only]M&G 6039
  36. Grossman, Joel B. Lawyers and Judges: The ABA and the Politics of Judicial Selection. New York: John Wiley, 1965.[Citation only]M&G 6040
  37. Grossman, Joel B., and Stephen L. Wasby. “Haynsworth and Parker: History Does Live Again.” South Carolina Law Review 23 (1971): 345-359.[Citation only]M&G 6041
  38. Grossman, Joel B., and Stephen L. Wasby. “The Senate and Supreme Court Nominations: Some Reflections.” Duke Law Journal 1972 (August 1972): 557-591.[Citation only]M&G 6042
  39. Halper, Thomas. “Demographic Factors and Supreme Court Appointments.” Drake Law Review 21 (January 1972): 238-251.[Citation only]M&G 6043
  40. Halper, Thomas. “Senate Rejection of Supreme Court Nominees.” Drake Law Review 22 (September 1972): 102-113.[Citation only]M&G 6044
  41. Halper, Thomas. “Supreme Court Appointments: Criteria and Consequences.” New York Law Forum 21 (Spring 1976): 563-584.[Citation only]M&G 6045
  42. Harris, Joseph P. The Advice and Consent of the Senate: A Study of the Confirmation of Appointments by the United States Senate. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953.[Citation only]M&G 6046
  43. Harris, Richard. Decision. New York: Dutton, 1971.[Citation only]M&G 6048
  44. Harris, Richard. “Annals of Politics: Judge Carswell and the Senate. Parts 1 and 2.” New Yorker 46 (December 5, 1970): 60-160; (December 12, 1970): 53-131.[Citation only]M&G 6047
  45. Hulbary, William E., and Thomas G. Walker. “The Supreme Court Selection Process: Presidential Motivations and Judicial Performance.” Western Political Quarterly 33 (June 1980): 185-196.[Citation only]M&G 6049
  46. Jager, Ronald B. “The Democracy's Demise: Grover Cleveland's Rejected Supreme Court Nominations.” Ph.D. diss., University of Texas, 1972.[Citation only]M&G 6050
  47. King, Gary. “Presidential Appointments to the Supreme Court: Adding Systematic Explanation to Probabilistic Description.” American Politics Quarterly 15 (July 1987): 373-386.[Citation only]M&G 6051
  48. Kurland, Philip B. “Appointment and Disappointment of Supreme Court Justices.” Law and the Social Order 1972 (1972): 183-237.[Citation only]M&G 6052
  49. Lawlor, John M. “Court Packing Revisited: A Proposal for Rationalizing the Timing of Appointments to the Supreme Court.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 134 (April 1986): 967-1000.[Citation only]M&G 6053
  50. Lewis, Anthony. “Constitutionality of Recess Appointments of Judges to Federal Bench Doubted.” American Judicature Society Journal 41 (December 1957): 122-123.[Citation only]M&G 6054
  51. Lively, Donald E. “The Supreme Court Appointment Process: In Search of Constitutional Roles and Responsibilities.” Southern California Law Review 59 (March 1986): 551-579.[Citation only]M&G 6055
  52. Marcus, Maeva. “George Washington’s Appointments to the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 3 (1999): 243–254.[Free online] Read it →
  53. Massaro, John L. “'Lame-Duck' Presidents, Great Justices?” Presidential Studies Quarterly 8 (Summer 1978): 296-302.[Citation only]M&G 6064
  54. Massaro, John L. “Advice and Dissent: Factors in the Senate's Refusal to Confirm Supreme Court Nominees with Special Emphasis on the Cases of Abe Fortas, Clement F. Haynsworth, and G. Harrold Carswell.” Ph.D. diss., Southern Illinois University, 1973.[Citation only]M&G 6062
  55. Massaro, John L. “Fortascast: Dark Clouds over President Ford's Forthcoming Supreme Court Nominations.” Federal Bar Journal 34 (Fall 1975): 257-278.[Citation only]M&G 6063
  56. McCaffree, Floyd E. “The Nomination and Confirmation of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1849.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1938.[Citation only]M&G 6056
  57. McConnell, A. Mitchell, Jr. “Haynsworth and Carswell: A New Senate Standard of Excellence.” Kentucky Law Journal 59 (Fall 1970): 7-34.[Citation only]M&G 6057
  58. McHargue, Daniel S. “Factors Influencing the Selection and Appointment of Members of the United States Supreme Court, 1784-1932.” Ph.D. diss., University of California at Los Angeles, 1949.[Citation only]M&G 6058
  59. McHargue, Daniel S. “Sectional Representation on the Supreme Court.” Marquette Law Review 35 (Summer 1951): 13-28.[Citation only]M&G 6059
  60. McKay, Robert B. “Selection of United States Supreme Court Justices.” University of Kansas Law Review 9 (December 1960): 109-137.[Citation only]M&G 6060
  61. McLain, J. Dudley. “Supreme Court Controversies of Presidents Roosevelt and Nixon: A Consideration of the Political Nature of the Presidential Power of Judicial Appointment.” Georgia State Bar Journal 8 (November 1971): 145-179.[Citation only]M&G 6061
  62. Mendelsohn, Rona H. “Senate Confirmation of Supreme Court Appointments: The Nomination and Rejection of John J. Parker.” Howard Law Journal 14 (Winter 1967): 105-148.[Citation only]M&G 6065
  63. Mersky, Roy M., and J. Myron Jacobstein. The Supreme Court of the United States: Hearings and Reports on Successful and Unsuccessful Nominations of Supreme Court Justices by the Senate Judiciary Committee, 1916-1972. Buffalo, NY: Hein, 1975.[Citation only]M&G 6066
  64. Monaghan, Henry P. “The Confirmation Process: Law or Politics?” Harvard Law Review 101 (April 1988): 1146-1229.[Citation only]M&G 6067
  65. Nathanson, Melissa. “‘Standing on the Corner When the Bus Came By:’ Harry A. Blackman’s Appointments to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1959) and the United States Supreme Court (1970).” Journal of Supreme Court History 44, no. 2 (2019): 215–242.[Free online] Read it →
  66. O'Brien, David M. “Packing the Supreme Court.” Virginia Quarterly Review 62 (Spring 1986): 189-212.[Citation only]M&G 6068
  67. O'Brien, F. William. “The Nine Rejected Men.” Baylor Law Review 19 (Winter 1967): 1-19.[Citation only]M&G 6069
  68. Overmeyer, Philip H. “Attorney General George H. Williams and the Chief Justiceship.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 28 (July 1937): 251-262.[Citation only]M&G 6070
  69. Palmer, Jan. “Senate Confirmation of Appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court.” Review of Social Economy 41 (October 1983): 152-162.[Citation only]M&G 6071
  70. Peck, Robert S. “Can Presidents Pack the Court? The Answer Is Yes, No, and Maybe.” Update 8 (Spring 1984): 12-15.[Citation only]M&G 6072
  71. Perry, Barbara A. “Ambition Counteracting Ambition: Separation of Powers in Supreme Court Appointments.” Journal of Supreme Court History 37, no. 2 (2012): 134–147.[Free online] Read it →
  72. Perry, James R. “Supreme Court Appointments, 1789-1801: Criteria, Presidential Style, and the Press of Events.” Journal of the Early Republic 6 (Winter 1986): 371-410.[Citation only]M&G 6073
  73. Piatt, Donn. “Edwin M. Stanton.” North American Review 142 (May 1886): 466-477; (June 1886): 540-548.[Citation only]M&G 6074
  74. Pierce, Carl A. “Vacancy on the Supreme Court: The Politics of Judicial Appointment.” Tennessee Law Review 39 (Summer 1972): 555-612.[Citation only]M&G 6075
  75. Powe, L. A., Jr. “Senate and the Court: Questioning a Nominee.” Texas Law Review 54 (May 1976): 891-901.[Citation only]M&G 6076
  76. Pusey, Merlo J. “Court Nominations and Presidential Cronyism.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1981 (1981): 68-73.[Citation only]M&G 6077
  77. Ripple, Kenneth F. “'Fitting In' at the Court: Some Reflections on the Selection of Supreme Court Justices.” Res Gestae 25 (March 1981): 120-123.[Citation only]M&G 6078
  78. Rogers, William P. “Judicial Appointments in the Eisenhower Administration.” American Judicature Society Journal 41 (August 1957): 38-42.[Citation only]M&G 6079
  79. Romine, Ronald H. “The Politics of Supreme Court Nominations from Theodore Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan: The Construction of a 'Politicization Index.'” Ph.D. diss., University of South Carolina, 1984.[Citation only]M&G 6080
  80. Ross, William G. “The Functions, Roles, and Duties of the Senate in the Supreme Court Appointment Process.” William and Mary Law Review 28 (Summer 1987): 633-682.[Free online]M&G 6081 Read it →
  81. Sanchez, Ernesto J. “John J. Parker and the Beginning of the Modern Confirmation Process.” Journal of Supreme Court History 32, no. 1 (2007): 22–45.[Free online] Read it →
  82. Schouler, James. “Appointments to the United States Supreme Court.” Green Bag 18 (December 1906): 657-661.[Citation only]M&G 6082
  83. Segal, Jeffrey A. “Senate Confirmation of Supreme Court Justices: Partisan and Institutional Politics.” Journal of Politics 49 (November 1987): 998-1015.[Citation only]M&G 6083
  84. Segal, Jeffrey A., and Harold J. Spaeth. “If a Supreme Court Vacancy Occurs, Will the Senate Confirm a Reagan Nominee?” Judicature 69 (December 1985): 186-190.[Citation only]M&G 6084
  85. Simpson, Brooks D. “President Washington’s Appointments to the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 17 (1992): 63–74.[Free online] Read it →
  86. Songer, Donald R. “The Relevance of Policy Values for the Confirmation of Supreme Court Nominees.” Law and Society Review 13 (Summer 1979): 927-948.[Citation only]M&G 6085
  87. Steele, John L. “Haynsworth v. the U.S. Senate: The Historic Confrontation over a Supreme Court Seat Was a Vivid Demonstration of the Uses of Power in Washington and of the Pressure Tactics in American Politics.” Fortune 81 (March 1970): 90-93, 155-161.[Citation only]M&G 6086
  88. Stowe, Harriet B. “Edwin M. Stanton.” In Men of Our Times, by Harriet B. Stowe, 363-377. Hartford, CT: Hartford Publishing Company, 1868.[Citation only]M&G 6087
  89. Sulfridge, Wayne. “Ideology as a Factor in Senate Consideration of Supreme Court Nominations.” Journal of Politics 42 (May 1980): 560-567.[Citation only]M&G 6088
  90. Swindler, William F. “'Robin Hood,' Congress, and the Court.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1977 (1977): 39-43.[Citation only]M&G 6090
  91. Swindler, William F. “Politics of 'Advice and Consent.'” American Bar Association Journal 56 (June 1970): 533-542.[Citation only]M&G 6089
  92. Teger, Stuart H. “Presidential Strategy for the Appointment of Supreme Court Justices.” Ph.D. diss., University of Rochester, 1976.[Citation only]M&G 6091
  93. Teger, Stuart H. “Presidential Strategy for the Appointment of Supreme Court Justices.” Public Choice 31 (Fall 1977): 1-22.[Citation only]M&G 6092
  94. “The Federal Judiciary: What Role Politics?” Judicature 68 (April/May 1985): 330-336.[Citation only]M&G 6027
  95. Thorpe, James A. The Appearance of Supreme Court Nominees before the Senate Judiciary Committee: The Evolution of a Problem in the Separation of Powers. 2d ed. Superior, WI: Superior Publications, 1977.[Citation only]M&G 6093
  96. Tramontine, John O. “Recess Appointments to the Supreme Court.” Intramural Law Review of New York University 17 (1962): 157-185.[Citation only]M&G 6094
  97. Ulmer, S. Sidney. “Supreme Court Appointments as a Poisson Distribution.” American Journal of Political Science 26 (February 1982): 113-116.[Citation only]M&G 6095
  98. Vatz, Richard E., and Theodore O. Windt. “The Defeats of Judges Haynsworth and Carswell: Rejection of Supreme Court Nominees.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 60 (December 1974): 477-488.[Citation only]M&G 6096
  99. Vigilante, Richard. “Beyond the Burger Court: Four Supreme Court Candidates Who Could Lead a Judicial Counterrevolution.” Policy Review 28 (Spring 1984): 20-26.[Citation only]M&G 6097
  100. Voorhees, Theodore. “It's Time for Merit Selection of Supreme Court Justices.” American Bar Association Journal 61 (June 1975): 705-708.[Citation only]M&G 6098
  101. Walker, Thomas G., and William E. Hulbary. “The Supreme Court Selection Process: Presidential Motivations and Judicial Performances.” Western Political Quarterly 33 (June 1980): 185-196.[Citation only]M&G 6099
  102. Wallis, W. Allen. “Poisson Distribution and the Supreme Court.” American Statistical Association Journal 31 (June 1936): 376-380.[Citation only]M&G 6100
  103. Walsh, Lawrence E. “Selection of Supreme Court Justices.” American Bar Association Journal 56 (June 1970): 555-560.[Citation only]M&G 6101
  104. Watson, George, and John Stookey. “Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings: A View from the Senate.” Judicature 71 (December/January 1988): 186-196.[Citation only]M&G 6102
  105. Watson, Richard L., Jr. “Defeat of Judge Parker: A Study in Pressure Groups and Politics.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 50 (September 1963): 213-234.[Citation only]M&G 6103
  106. Weissman, Gary A. “Legal Esoterica.” Advocate (Idaho) 29 (January 1986): 26-28.[Citation only]M&G 6104
  107. Wigmore, John H. “A New Way to Nominate Supreme Court Judges.” American Judicature Society Journal 29 (December 1945): 106-107.[Citation only]M&G 6105
  108. Wigmore, John H. “New Way to Nominate Supreme Court Judges.” Kentucky State Bar Journal 10 (March 1946): 153-154.[Citation only]M&G 6106
  109. Wilson, Henry. “Jeremiah S. Black and Edwin M. Stanton.” Atlantic Monthly 26 (October 1870): 463-475.[Citation only]M&G 6107
  110. Winters, Glenn R., ed. Selected Readings: Judicial Selection and Tenure. Chicago: American Judicature Society, 1967.[Citation only]M&G 6108
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