Supreme Court Nominations at the Bar of Political Conflict: The Strange and Uncertain Career of the Liberal Consensus in Law

Nominations to the US Supreme Court have become increasingly important and contentious in America politics recent decades. Reasons include growing significance of constitutional law prospects political power, accompanied by historical developments relative power competing party coalitions that placed even more focus on composition Court. Meanwhile, partisan conflict stalemate grown systems among We People. In The Long Reach Sixties , Laura Kalman explores how nomination struggles Presidents Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon set stage for contemporary besetting nominations American generally. Building Kalman’s book, this review essay discusses jurisprudential causes implications conflict, with an eye toward what might lie ahead.