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Article: "Supreme Court Nominees Before the Senate Judiciary Committee"
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- Justice System Journal
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- May 1, 2007
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Margaret Williams and Lawrence Baum, "Supreme Court Nominees Before the Senate Judiciary Committee," Judicature 90 (September-October 2006): 73-80.
The authors treat the records of U.S. Court of Appeals judges as a means of accountability when one of those judges is nominated to the Supreme Court, and they look at senators' questioning of nominees about the cases they have decided. They find that, even when one takes into account greater general scrutiny of Supreme Court nominees, there is a temporal pattern in these questions, with more such questioning recently, both generally and in terms of negative questions. A ...