Robert A Carp, Kenneth L Manning, Lisa M Holmes, Jennifer Bowie

Judicial Process in America

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Produktbeschreibung

"Since the publication of the twelfth edition of Judicial Process in America in 2023, the United States has seen a great deal of uncertainty and discord, and the courts have certainly not been cut off from this turmoil. Some of the most prevalent issues surrounding the federal courts in recent years have concerned increased partisan polarization of the judiciary, the implications of President Donald Trump's success in appointing conservative judges across the federal courts, declining support for the Supreme Court by the public, and President Joe Biden's successful efforts at diversifying the federal judiciary. Partisan polarization has been increasing in the United States, including among the public and among our elected officials. Recent scholarship points to a Supreme Court that has also seen a dramatic increase in partisan polarization in recent years, "perhaps more so than ever in its history."1 This increased polarization has affected Supreme Court decision-making across many policy areas, including voting rights and campaign finance, religious liberty, and cases involving business. In other words, there is more disagreement today than there used to be in resolving campaign finance or religious liberty cases between justices appointed by Democratic versus Republican presidents.2 We are now a few years into the 63 conservative supermajority brought about by the hardball tactics utilized in appointing two of President Trump's three appointees to the Court (as we address in Chapter 6). Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's selection in 2022 as President Biden's sole appointee to the nation's highest court, while unprecedented from the perspective of representation, did little to alter the ideological composition of the Court, given that she replaced liberal Justice Stephen Breyer. Decades of work by conservative interests and Republican political leaders are in the process of coming to fruition in expanding gun rights, empowering individual religious liberty claims over antidiscrimination policies, ending race-based affirmative action in college admissions, and limiting the power of administrative agencies, among other areas. Indeed, at the close of the 20232024 term, one longtime Court observer noted that the justices had "taken on a stunning array of major disputes and [assumed] a commanding role in shaping American society and democracy.""--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• 13th edition
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781071934425
• ISBN-10: 1071934422
• Artikelnr.: 72552258

Autorenporträt

Robert A. Carp is professor of political science at the University of Houston. He is coauthor of Policymaking and Politics in the Federal Courts ; Politics and Judgment in Federal District Courts; the Federal Courts, fourth edition, with Ronald Stidham; and numerous articles on judicial process. Kenneth L. Manning is professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He is coauthor with Robert A. Carp and Ronald Stidham of The Federal Courts (Fifth Edition) and The State Courts, and coeditor of Political Perspectives: Essays on Government and Politics. Manning′s work on the politics of judicial decision-making and federal judicial selection have been published in a variety of journals. Professor Holmes specializes in judicial politics, constitutional law, gender and law, and American politics. Her research focuses on various issues surrounding the politics of appointing federal and state court judges. Her recent work on how presidents use judicial nominees to court favor with their partisan supporters and interested groups has been published in Presidential Studies Quarterly, American Politics Research, and the Drake Law Review. Her current project examines the implications of politicized appointment politics on the careers and attitudes of judicial nominees. Jennifer Bowie is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond. Her research and teaching focuses on judicial decision making and behavior on the U.S. and comparative courts. She is a co-author of The View from the Bench and Chambers: Examining Judicial Process and Decision Making on the U.S. Courts of Appeals. Her work has been published in a number of journals and edited volumes including The Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and the Journal of Law and Courts.