Posted by Kenneth Anderson: Confirmation Wars: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_07_19-2009_07_25.shtml#1248464915
I am no expert on the Supreme Court, or confirmation hearings, or any related stuff, so I haven't posted about the Sotomayor hearings. But I have learned a lot about the process, including many sensible policy recommendations, in a short, very well-written book by [1]Benjamin Wittes, Confirmation Wars. it came about a couple of years ago but it has been updated and re-released with reference to the Sotomayor nomination. It is plain spoken and sensible, as with everything Wittes writes (he was for almost a decade responsible for writing most of the unsigned editorials on law and justice at the Washington Post), and the book is deliberately short. Full disclosure: he is a friend, my editor on my [2]targeted killing chapter in his [3]book on counterterrorism, and a fellow member of the [4]Hoover Task Force on National Security and Law. Although ordinarily all those connections should cause you to disconnect my recommendation by about 98%, I would still say you should treat this book as ... Highly Recommended. References 1. http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=%5EDB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=1442201541 2. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1415070 3. http://www.amazon.com/Legislating-War-Terror-Agenda-Reform/dp/0815703104/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248464746&sr=8-1 4. http://www.hoover.org/taskforces/taskforces/nationalsecurity _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
