What role does partisanship play in federal court appointments?
What will be an ideal response?
Federal judges are political officials who exercise the authority of a separate and powerful branch of government. They bring their political views to office and have opportunities to promote these views. Accordingly, they are appointed through a partisan process. Presidents usually nominate a jurist of their own party to a federal court vacancy, and at times, partisanship has played a major part in the U.S. Senate's confirmation or rejection of a controversial nominee. Partisanship used to be enough of a qualification by itself for the Senate to reject a Supreme Court nominee, but it has become less common for a nominee to be blocked solely on this basis.
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the “?o” is defined as the ______________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).