• DOI:10.1086/693347
Corpus ID: 158940942

Obama’s Judicial Legacy: The Final Chapter

@article{Slotnick2017ObamasJL,
  title={Obama’s Judicial Legacy: The Final Chapter},
  author={Elliot E. Slotnick and S. Schiavoni and S. Goldman},
  journal={Journal of Law and Courts},
  year={2017},
  volume={5},
  pages={363 - 422}
}

• Elliot E. Slotnick, S. Schiavoni, S. Goldman
• Published 2017
• Political Science
• Journal of Law and Courts

This article looks at the appointment and confirmation politics of President Obama’s nominees during the 114th Congress in which unprecedented obstruction and delay of Obama's nominees including the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland occurred. This is placed within the overall context of Obama’s impact on the judiciary. The demographic portrait of the Obama judiciary is sketched with special attention to the historic record of diverse nontraditional appointees. We conclude with a look… Expand

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