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Title: Toward the Framers' Understanding of "Advice and Consent": A Historical and Textual Inquiry (Twenty-Fourth Federalist Society Student Symposium, Law and Freedom)
Author : Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
Release Date : January 22, 2005
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 382 KB

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INTRODUCTION During President George W. Bush's first term, no domestic issue excited the Republican and Democratic bases like judicial nominations. (1) Upon the President's reelection, attention on the war for the courts continued as the President announced the renomination of twenty people whose first-term nominations had not received up-or-down votes in the full U.S. Senate. (2) In 2005, President Bush's first nomination to the Supreme Court--that of Judge John Roberts to replace the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist--was confirmed without delay. As of the writing of this article, the President's second nomination--that of Judge Samuel Alito to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor--faced scattered threats of opposition-party delay. (3)