Coming across a list on the US Senate website of every Supreme Court nomination dating back to 1789, Bobelian was struck by the fact that until 1968, the Senate had refused to confirm only one nominee, and confirmations generally came a day or two after the nomination, often by unanimous voice without debate. He discovered that the series of acrimonious nominations that broke this calm during the late Johnson and early Nixon terms were the culmination of conflicts surrounding the Court during the 1950s and 1960s over civil rights, criminal justice, school prayer, reapportionment, obscenity, and communist subversion. Distributed in the US by independent Publishers Group. Annotation 2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
