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Article: Questioning judges about their decisions: Supreme Court nominees before the Senate Judiciary Committee
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- September 1, 2006
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Interest in questioning nominees about past decisions has increased over time with senatorial recognition of the courts' importance.
There is considerable conflict involving the federal courts and the other branches of government, conflict that is widely perceived to have grown in recent years.1 Some of it involves attacks on the courts themselves. Presidents and members of Congress have criticized judges and threatened retaliation, even impeachment, for their decisions.2 In 2005 one senator even said that recent incidents of violence against judges might have resulted from inappropriate judicial activism.3 In response, some federal judges and others sympathetic to them have expressed ...