Judicial Choices         Supreme Court conformations, much like everything else in politics and life, changed over the years. Conformations grew from insignificant and routine appointments to vital and painstakingly prolonged trials, because of the changes in the political parties and institutions. The parties found the Supreme Court to be a tool for increasing their power, which caused an increased interest in conformations. The change in the Senate to less hierarchical institution played part to the strategy …showed first 75 words of 951 total…

…showed last 75 words of 951 total…Supreme Court to pursue their agenda as a means of a show of power instead of a 'mass constituency.' Republicans used the Supreme Court for power by increasing its constituency through political campaigns against liberal a Supreme Court. This battle over power and the new unpredictable Senate caused Supreme Court conformations to be vital, strategic, and difficult. Footnotes 1 Mark Silverstein, Judicious Choices, (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1994), p. 76. 2 Ibid., p. 87. 3 Ibid., p. 34.