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This essay speculates on what an Obama judiciary might look like and how the selection process is likely to play out. This is presented against the backdrop of past experience. First, the essay traces the demographic diversification of the federal bench from the presidencies of Franklin Roosevelt through George W. Bush. Second, this essay considers ideological diversity and presents voting data from the first three completed terms of the Roberts Court. Third, the essay considers the selection process, including confirmation of lower-court judges by the Senate. It concludes that President Obama can be expected to promote further gender, race, and ethnic diversification as well as to seek to moderate the current ideological imbalance on the courts. He will likely keep the existing institutional apparatus of judicial selection and will restore the American Bar Association to the role it had prior to George W. Bush's presidency. Confirmation may well prove to be a challenge in a Senate that is not filibuster-proof.

This essay speculates on what an Obama judiciary might look like and how the selection process is likely to play out. This is presented against the backdrop of past experience. First, the essay traces the demographic diversification of the federal bench from the presidencies of Franklin Roosevelt through George W. Bush. Second, this essay considers ideological diversity and presents voting data from the first three completed terms of the Roberts Court. Third, the essay considers the selection process, including confirmation of lower-court judges by the Senate. It concludes that President Obama can be expected to promote further gender, race, and ethnic diversification as well as to seek to moderate the current ideological imbalance on the courts. He will likely keep the existing institutional apparatus of judicial selection and will restore the American Bar Association to the role it had prior to George W. Bush's presidency. Confirmation may well prove to be a challenge in a Senate that is not filibuster-proof. Adapted from the source document.

It is a pleasure to review this well-written book, which should be of enormous interest to every serious student of judicial politics and the presidency. Based upon a thorough mining of the presidential papers of seven presidents and numerous interviews with key participants in the selection process, along with other primary and secondary sources, Yalof gives us a presidency-by-presidency take on the recruitment of Supreme Court nominees.

This exploratory article considers various aspects of the linkage between the judicial selection and the recruitment of "good"—as defined here—judges and the challenge of determining and applying objective criteria to particular individuals. Certain selection procedures are suggested for maximizing the recruitment of good judges. The article examines five principal judicial selection methods used in the United States, with a focus on federal judicial selection and the changes brought about during the Carter administration. Although evaluation of judicial candidates will remain, for the most part, a subjective process, it may be possible to develop somewhat less subjective ways of assessing who does and does not possess the qualities that make for a good judge.

Considered are various aspects of the link between judicial selection & recruitment of "good" judges & the challenge of determining & applying objective criteria to particular individuals. Certain selection procedures are suggested for maximizing the recruitment of good judges. Five principal judicial selection methods used in the US are examined, focusing on federal judicial selection & the changes brought about during the Carter administration. Although evaluation of judicial candidates will remain largely a subjective process, it may be possible to develop less subjective ways of assessing candidates. HA.