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Appointing federal judges: law, politics, and democracy.
Michael Comiskey, Seeking Justices: The Judging of Supreme Court Nominees.
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004.
Richard Davis, Electing Justice: Fixing the Supreme Court Nomination Process.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Lee Epstein and Jeffrey A. Segal, Advice and Consent: The Politics of Judicial
Appointments. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
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