Description The Chief Washington Correspondent for the New York Times presents a richly detailed, news-breaking, and conversation-changing look at the unprecedented political fight to fill the Supreme Court seat made vacant by Antonin Scalia\'s death--using it to explain the paralyzing and all but irreversible dysfunction across all three branches in the nation\'s capital.
He examines the politic.
Richly textured and deeply informative, Confirmation Bias provides much-needed context, revisiting the judicial wars of the past two decades to show how those conflicts have led to our current polarization.
In Confirmation Bias he tells the story of this history-making battle to control the Supreme Court through exclusive interviews with Mc Connell, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, and other top officials, Trump campaign operatives, Court activists, and legal scholars, as well as never-before-reported details and developments.
Carl Hulse has spent more than thirty years covering the machinations of the beltway.
Gorsuch, was confirmed in April 2017.
Scalia\'s seat would be held open until Donald Trump\'s nominee, Neil M.
Not one Republican in the Senate would meet with him.
In an unprecedented move, the Republican-controlled Senate, led by majority leader, Mitch Mc Connell, refused to give Democratic President Barack Obama\'s nominee, Merrick Garland, a Confirmation hearing.
It would help decide a presidential election, fundamentally alter longstanding protocols of the United States Senate, and transform the Supreme Court--which has long held itself as a neutral arbiter above politics--into another branch of the federal government riven by partisanship.
That battle would not only change the tilt of the court, but the course of American history.
His unexpected Death in February 2016 created a vacancy that precipitated a pitched political fight.
The embodiment of American conservative thought and jurisprudence, Antonin Scalia cast an expansive shadow Over the Supreme Court for three decades.
Description The Chief Washington Correspondent for the New York Times presents a richly detailed, news-breaking, and conversation-changing look at the unprecedented political fight to fill the Supreme Court seat made vacant by Antonin Scalia\'s death--using it to explain the paralyzing and all but irreversible dysfunction across all three branches in the nation\'s capital
