America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents And Principles We Live By - Plot & Excerpts
Named to the Supreme Court by President Eisenhower during a Senate recess in 1958, Potter Stewart was one of a long line of recess appointees to the federal bench. The practice of judicial recess appointments began under President Washington and has continued into the twenty-first century. Since Stewart, the recess appointment process—in which an appointee provisionally takes office prior to Senate confirmation—has not been used to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court, but has repeatedly been used for inferior-federal-court appointments. AT BOTTOM, “CONSTITUTIONAL LAW” IS about how government is constituted. Specifically, how many and what sorts of government institutions exist? How are these institutions configured, and how do they interact with each other? How are various members of these government institutions selected and removed? What is the scope of a given institution’s authority? What internal deliberation protocols and voting procedures operate within a particular institution?
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