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01942aam a2200349Ii 4500 001 C07284C6E55311E7AFB0C42A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20171220010225 008 170414s2017 pau 000 0deng d 020 $a 9780812249972 020 $a 0812249976 035 $a (OCoLC)982438885 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d VJ2 $d SILO 050 $a KF8776 $b .R63 2017 100 1 $a Robinson, Kimberly, $e author. 245 10 $a American justice 2017 : $b the Supreme Court in crisis / $c Kimberly Robinson. 264 1 $a Philadelphia : $b University of Pennsylvania Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xiii, 162 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "With the death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court was plunged into crisis. Refusing to hold hearings or confirm the nominee of a Democratic president almost a year away from a presidential election, the Republican-controlled Senate held the court hostage, forcing it to do its work through nearly the entire term ending in June 2017 with just eight justices. In American Justice 2017: The Supreme Court in Crisis, Kimberly Robinson examines the way individual justices and the institution as a whole reacted to this unprecedented, politically fraught situation"--Jacket. 610 10 $a United States. $b Supreme Court. 610 10 $a United States. $b Senate. $b Senate. 610 17 $a United States. $b Supreme Court $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00529481 610 17 $a United States. $b Senate $b Senate $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00530422 650 0 $a Judges $x Selection and appointment $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 2009-2017. 650 0 $a Constitutional law $z United States. 650 7 $a Judges $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00984490 650 7 $a Constitutional law $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00875797 941 $a 2 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718093011.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210020724.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C07284C6E55311E7AFB0C42A97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search