Why have conservatives decried \'activist judges\'? And why have liberals - and America\'s powerful legal establishment - emphasized qualifications and experience over ideology? This transformative text tackles these questions with a new framework for thinking about the nation\'s courts, \'the Judicial tug of war\', which not only explains current political clashes over America\'s courts, but also powerfully predicts the composition of courts moving forward.
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Why have conservatives decried \'activist judges\'? And why have liberals - and America\'s powerful legal establishment - emphasized qualifications and experience over ideology? This transformative text tackles these questions with a new framework for thinking about the nation\'s courts, \'the Judicial tug of war\', which not only explains current political clashes over America\'s courts, but also powerfully predicts the composition of courts moving forward