ROUNDTABLE: Confirmation Politics and Reimagining Judicial Accountability

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Overview

The contention over nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States highlighted the meaning confirmations have beyond the outcomes. This roundtable will consider other confirmation battles, and accountability used in other systems.

Section

• Judicial Politics / Judicial Politics

Chair

• Susan Sterett, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Participants

• Taneisha Nicole Means, Vassar College

• Amy Steigerwalt, Georgia State University

• Lee Demetrius Walker, University of North Texas

• Eve M. Ringsmuth, Oklahoma State University-Main Campus