Nominations to the US Supreme Court have become increasingly important and contentious in America politics in recent decades. Reasons include the growing significance of constitutional law to the prospects of political power, accompanied by historical developments in the relative power of the competing party coalitions that have placed even more focus on the composition of the Court. Meanwhile, partisan conflict and stalemate have grown in the party systems and among We the People. In The Long Reach of the Sixties, Laura Kalman explores how the nomination struggles of Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon set the stage for the contemporary conflict besetting nominations and American politics more generally. Building on Kalman’s book, this review essay discusses the political and jurisprudential causes and implications of this conflict, with an eye toward what might lie ahead.

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最高法院在政治冲突方面的提名：自由主义法律共识的奇怪和不确定的职业

近几十年来，美国最高法院的提名在美国政治中变得越来越重要和有争议。原因包括宪法对政治权力前景的重要性日益增加，伴随着竞争政党联盟相对权力的历史发展，这些发展更加关注法院的组成。与此同时，党派内部和我们人民之间的党派冲突和僵局也在加剧。在六十年代的长距离, 劳拉·卡尔曼 (Laura Kalman) 探讨了林登·约翰逊总统和理查德·尼克松总统的提名斗争如何为困扰提名和更普遍的美国政治的当代冲突奠定了基础。在卡尔曼的书的基础上，这篇评论文章讨论了这场冲突的政治和法学原因和影响，并着眼于未来可能发生的事情。