Shortening agency and judicial vacancies through filibuster reform? An examination of confirmation rates and delays from 1981 to 2014

Duke Law Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1646-1715

  O'connell, Anne Joseph ^a  

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