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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Barton, Benjamin H., 1969- author.     Subjects     United States. Supreme Court -- Officials and employees -- Selection and appointment -- History.     Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Barton, Benjamin H., 1969- author.       by title:      The credentialed cou...         MARC Display

The credentialed court : inside the cloistered, elite world of American justice / Benjamin H. Barton. by Barton, Benjamin H., 1969- author. New York : Encounter Books, 2022. Subjects United States. Supreme Court -- Officials and employees -- Selection and appointment -- History.   Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States -- History. ISBN:  9781641772044 (hardcover) : 1641772042 (hardcover) : Description:  361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  First American edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "The Credentialed Supreme Court starts by establishing just how different today's Justices are from their predecessors. The book combines two massive empirical studies of every Justices' background from John Jay to Amy Coney Barrett with short, readable bios of past greats to demonstrate that today's Justices arrive on the Court with much narrower experiences than they once did. The modern Supreme Court specializes in cloistered and elite lives. Today's Justices have spent more time in elite academic settings (both as students and faculty) than any previous Courts. Every Justice but Barrett attended either Harvard or Yale Law School, and four of the Justices were tenured professors at prestigious law schools. They also spent more time as Federal Appellate Court Judges than any previous Courts. These two jobs (tenured law professor and appellate judge) share two critical components: both jobs are basically lifetime appointments that involve little or no contact with the public at large. The current Supreme Court is packed with a very specific type of person: type-A overachievers who have triumphed in a long tournament measuring academic and technical legal excellence. This Court desperately lacks individuals who reflect a different type of "merit." The book examines the exceptional and varied lives of past greats from John Marshall to Thurgood Marshall and asks how many, if any, of these giants would be nominated today. The book argues against our current bookish and narrow meritocracy. Healthier societies offer multiple different routes to success and onto bodies like our Supreme Court"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 347.73263 Ba Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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