Supreme Court Politics: The Institution and Its Procedure Book

	Tributes
	A Note on Editing
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	The Court in Action: The Abortion Controversy	5
Ch. 2	Appointing Supreme Court Justices	49
A	Who Gets Nominated and Confirmed?	51
B	What Standards Should the President and the Senate Apply?	85
C	The Nomination and Confirmation of Supreme Court Justices - Case Studies of the Nominations of Robert Bork, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg	142
D	Reforming The Process	302
Ch. 3	Setting the Court's Agenda	325
A	Governing Statutes and Rules	327
B	Mechanics of the Certiorari Process	334
C	What's Really Happening?	344
D	Proposals for Reform	372
Ch. 4	Collegial Decision Making	381
Ch. 5	The Roles of the Participants	445
A	The Chief Justice	445
B	The Law Clerks	502
C	The Advocates	512
Ch. 6	Proposals for Reforming the Institution	602
A	A National Court of Appeals?	604
B	Secrecy of Supreme Court Processes	631
	Index	689