POLS 3302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mitch Mcconnell, Jacksonian Democracy, Blue Slip
22 Feb 2020
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Intro: personnel- connection to political system, judicial independence, state models: missouri plan- retention and elections. Federal judicial selection: formal procedures: president nominates, the senate renders advice and consent, b. decide if it gets sent in front of the entire senate for vote. Minority party could no longer have unlimited debate for a supreme court nominee. Ideological composition of courts d: supreme court- martin quinn scores measure the extent to which justices are liberal or conserative. The current court goes: sotomayer ginsberg kagan. All of those on the left were nominated by democratic presidents and all of those on the right were nominated by republican presidents: court of appeals: democratic majority in the 15th, 4th, 9th, 10th, dc, and the. Democracy) nonpartisan judicial elections (1920"s- progressive era) missouri plan meant merit judicial selection. A non partisan commission submits 3 names to the.
