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  • 1 - Fighting over Judicial Selection

  • Herbert M. Kritzer, University of Minnesota
  • Book:
    Litigating Judicial Selection
    Published online:
    27 February 2024
    Print publication:
    16 May 2024, pp 1-13

  • Summary

    The book opens with a discussion of a case from Delaware challenging a long-standing requirement for partisan balance on state courts in the Delaware state constitution. The chapter goes on to note that substantively Marbury v. Madison (1803) was a case about the judicial appointment process. After a brief discussion of recent litigation over the appointment of federal administrative law judges, the chapter notes that litigation over judicial selection is consistent with Alexis de Tocqueville’s observation that “scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved sooner or later into a judicial question.” The chapter identifies several expectations, describes the data collection process, and briefly outlines the chapters that follow.