Oral Arguments and Coalition Formation on the U.S. Supreme Court
Title | Oral Arguments and Coalition Formation on the U.S. Supreme Court PDF eBook |
Author | Ryan C. Black |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 2012-10-24 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0472118463 |
Oral arguments are a key aspect of the Supreme Court's decision-making process
Oral Arguments and Decision Making on the United States Supreme Court
Title | Oral Arguments and Decision Making on the United States Supreme Court PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy R. Johnson |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2004-07-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780791461037 |
How oral arguments influence the decisions of Supreme Court justices.
Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings in the U.S. Senate
Title | Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings in the U.S. Senate PDF eBook |
Author | Dion Farganis |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 2014-03-24 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0472119338 |
How much do Supreme Court nominees reveal at their confirmation hearings, and how do their answers affect senators' votes?
Brandishing the First Amendment
Title | Brandishing the First Amendment PDF eBook |
Author | Tamara Piety |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2012-02-08 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0472117920 |
Tamara R. Piety argues that increasingly expansive First Amendment protections for commercial speech imperil public health, safety, and welfare; the reliability of commercial and consumer information; the stability of financial markets; and the global environment. Using evidence from public relations and marketing, behavioral economics, psychology, and cognitive studies, she shows how overly permissive extensions of protections to commercial expression limit governmental power to address a broad range of public policy issues.
Inconsistency and Indecision in the United States Supreme Court
Title | Inconsistency and Indecision in the United States Supreme Court PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew P Hitt |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2019-05-20 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0472131362 |
The United States Supreme Court exists to resolve constitutional disputes among lower courts and the other branches of government, allowing elected officials, citizens, and businesses to act without legal uncertainty. American law and society function more effectively when the Court resolves these ambiguous questions of Constitutional law. Since lower courts must defer to its reasoning, the Court should also promulgate clear and consistent legal doctrine, giving a reason for its judgment that a majority of justices support. Yet a Court that prioritizes resolving many disputes will at times produce contradictory sets of opinions or fail to provide a rationale and legal precedent for its decision at all. In either case, it produces an unreasoned judgment. Conversely, a Court that prioritizes logically consistent doctrine will fail to resolve many underlying disputes in law and society. Inconsistency and Indecision in the United States Supreme Court demonstrates that over time, institutional changes, lobbied for by the justices, substantially reduced unreasoned judgments in the Court’s output, coinciding with a reduction in the Court’s caseload. Hence, the Supreme Court historically emphasized the first goal of dispute resolution, but evolved into a Court that prioritizes the second goal of logically consistent doctrine. As a result, the Court today fails to resolve more underlying questions in law and society in order to minimize criticism of its output from other elites. In so doing, the modern Court often fails to live up to its Constitutional obligation.
The Chief Justice
Title | The Chief Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Artemus Ward |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 465 |
Release | 2016-08-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0472121952 |
The Chief Justice brings together leading scholars of the courts who employ social science theory and research to explain the role of the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. They consider the chief justice’s appointment, office, powers, and influence both within the Court and in the American system of government more generally. The chief justice presides over oral arguments and the justices’ private conferences. The chief justice speaks first in those conferences, presents cases and other matters to the other justices, and assigns the Court’s opinions in all cases in which the chief justice votes with the majority. In addition, the chief justice presides over the Judicial Conference of the United States, a policy-making body composed of lower-court federal judges. As Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes wrote, the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court is “the most important judicial officer in the world.”
The Solicitor General and the United States Supreme Court
Title | The Solicitor General and the United States Supreme Court PDF eBook |
Author | Ryan C. Black |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2012-04-30 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1107015294 |
This book examines whether and how the Office of the Solicitor General influences the United States Supreme Court. Combining archival data with recent innovations in the areas of matching and causal inference, the book finds that the Solicitor General influences every aspect of the Court's decision making process.