Senate Confirmation of a Supreme Court Nominee: An Online Deliberation
Days 3 & 4: Research the Essential Questions
Objectives:
- Analyze the controversial issues involved for Republican Senators in the nomination of Judge Sotomayor to the Supreme Court and what the political implications are for Republicans opposed to her nomination.
- Determine the characteristics that President Obama seeks in his judicial nominations.
- Determine the characteristics that the current Senate seeks in providing “advice and consent” to a president’s judicial nominee.
- Predict the types of questions and issues that the current Senate might be asking in the confirmation hearings for nominee Sotomayor.
Focus Questions:
Topics that should be considered in your research may include, but not be limited to the following:
- The characteristics that President Obama seeks in his potential judicial nominees.
- The characteristics that the current Senate, both Republican and Democrat lawmakers, seeks in providing “advice and consent” to a president’s judicial nominee
- Predict the types of questions and issues that the current Senate might be asking in the confirmation hearings for nominee Sotomayor.
Resources:
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