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Senators Treat Female Supreme Court Nominees Differently. Here’s the Evidence.
Document Type
News Article
Language
English (en)
Publication Date
2020
Publication Title
The Washington Post
Abstract
Over the weekend, President Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court seat left empty by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has promised to move the nomination swiftly through to confirmation.
As a result, the nation’s attention will soon turn to Barrett’s confirmation hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Based on our empirical examinations of every question asked and every answer given at the hearings since the first in 1939, here is what to expect.
Keywords
Supreme Court, Confirmation Hearings, Gender Bias, Female Nominees, Senate Judiciary Committee, Judicial Politics
Publication Citation
Christina L. Boyd, Paul M. Collins Jr. & Lori A. Ringhand, Senators Treat Female Supreme Court Nominees Differently. Here’s the Evidence., The Washington Post, Sep. 29, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/29/senators-treat-female-supreme-court-nominees-differently-heres-evidence/
Repository Citation
Boyd, Christina L.; Collins, Paul M. Jr.; and Ringhand, Lori A., "Senators Treat Female Supreme Court Nominees Differently. Here’s the Evidence." (2020). Scholarship@WashULaw. 839.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_scholarship/839