Spite Nominations to the United States Supreme Court: Herbert C. Hoover, Owen J. Roberts, and the Politics of Presidential Vengeance in Retrospect

Authors

Peter G. Fish, Duke Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1988

Abstract

Presidential revenge as a motivating force behind Supreme Court nominations is an ineluctable thread running through American judicial selection politics.

Citation

Peter G. Fish, Spite Nominations to the United States Supreme Court: Herbert C. Hoover, Owen J. Roberts, and the Politics of Presidential Vengeance in Retrospect, 77 Kentucky Law Journal 545-576 (1988)