The Blue Slip and the Senate Confirmation Process

蓝单和参议院确认程序

• 批准号: 1022665
• 负责人: Janet Box-Steffensmeier
• 金额: $ 9.97万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-15 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1022665&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Blue; Slip; Senate; Confirmation; Process

The Blue Slip and the Senate Confirmation ProcessThis project proposes to catalog all Senatorial blue slips available in the National Archives. Under the blue slip policy, each home state senator in the United States Senate is sent a query asking for their opinion and information on any judicial nominee from their state. While the formal role of providing consent to the President's nominees to the federal courts is specified by the Constitution, senators have long played a consultative role through the use of the blue slip mechanism. Digital scans of the blue slips will be made generally available. Furthermore, this project expands existing databases on lower federal court confirmation (currently only available for nominations from 1977 to 2004) to encompass 1891 to 1976. These steps will allow comprehensive analyses of the confirmation process and how it has evolved over time, as well as investigate what factors influence the return of the blue slip. Finally, this project aims to make theoretical contributions to the study of the judiciary and intergovernmental relations. The research builds on existing theories of the confirmation process to carefully examine claims about how the norm of the blue slip affects the confirmation process. A more complete picture of the judicial confirmation process will lead to a fuller understanding of key political players and their behavior while also addressing theoretical perspectives on how institutions evolve.

蓝单和参议院确认过程该项目建议对国家档案馆中所有可用的参议院蓝单进行编目。根据蓝单政策，美国参议院的每一位家乡州参议员都会收到一份询问，询问他们对本州任何司法提名人的意见和信息。虽然《宪法》明确规定了同意总统提名的联邦法院候选人的正式作用，但参议员长期以来一直通过使用蓝票机制发挥咨询作用。蓝单的数字扫描将普遍提供。此外，该项目扩大了现有的下级联邦法院确认数据库（目前仅适用于1977年至2004年的提名），以涵盖1891年至1976年。这些步骤将允许全面分析确认过程及其如何随着时间的推移而演变，并调查哪些因素影响蓝单的返回。最后，本项目旨在为司法和政府间关系的研究做出理论贡献。研究建立在现有的确认过程的理论，仔细检查索赔的蓝单规范如何影响确认过程。对司法确认过程的更全面了解将有助于更全面地了解关键的政治参与者及其行为，同时也有助于从理论上探讨制度如何演变。