Article: Judicial Roulette: Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Judicial Selection.

Judicial Roulette: Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Judicial Selection. David M. O'Brien. Priority Press, $9.95. The story is familiar enough by now. In the waning days of his last term, the president nominates a political soulmate for a position on the Supreme Court. The president's men portray the nominee as an unobjectionable centrist. But political opponents are undeterred: they perceive him as a dangerous ideologue whose ascension would radically tilt the Court. The confirmation battle is prolonged and vicious. Finally, when the nomination fails, the disappointed aspirant retires to the lecture circuit, for a while, at least, a hero to the ...

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