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High court confirmations an 'absurd' exercise?
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Jun 25, 2010 10:45am |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Tom Curry |
| News Date | Friday, June 25, 2010 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Most of the Supreme Court justices whom historians rank as "great" — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, John Marshall, Benjamin Cardozo — never went before the Senate Judiciary Committee to answer questions.
Neither the Constitution nor statute requires such testimony.
The first to testify, Harlan Fiske Stone in 1925, only did so to resolve one senator’s complaints about how Stone, while serving as attorney general, had handled an investigation of that same senator. |
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