Qualifications or Philosophy? The Use of Blue Slips in a Polarized Era.
In recent years, judicial nominations to lower federal courts have been blocked privately by negative blue slips returned by home state senators. We examine the conditions under which senators return negative blue slips and discover two results. First, consistent with existing work, ideology plays a...
| Publicado en: | Presidential Studies Quarterly Vol. 44; no. 2; pp. 290 - 309 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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