Hiring someone to watch your children, or to provide any other assistance you many need around your home, can be an incredibly time-consuming and difficult process. Making sure you comply with the employment, hiring, payroll, and tax regulations, as well as just being a good employer, is crucial to making this relationship work. How to Hire a Nanny provides guidance from the nation's leading expert on household help-- Guy Maddalone. For more than...

Lyssa Dent Hughes is a privileged, well-educated daughter of a Republican senator and fifth-generation granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant, wife of a professor, owner of a pleasant Georgetown home. She is also the president's nominee for surgeon general. Then members of the media discover that once, in the past, she failed to respond to a call for jury duty. A relatively minor misstep - were it not for a good friend who uses the incident to make a point,...

"From Louis Brandeis to Robert Bork to Clarence Thomas, the nomination of federal judges has generated intense political conflict. With Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement and other justices likely to depart soon - not to mention threats to filibuster lower court judges - the selection process is, once again, the center of red-hot partisan debate." "In Advice and Consent, two leading legal scholars, Lee Epstein and Jeffrey A. Segal, offer a brief, illuminating...

"Nancy Scherer addresses why presidents choose (or don't choose) to diversify the federal courts by race, ethnicity, and gender. She explores how and why the issue became a partisan fight in the first place, tracking the controversial history and politics of court diversification. Drawing on polls, political experiments, surveys, and interviews, Scherer illuminates the complicated relationship between diversity and court legitimacy. She shows how...

"From the chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times, a richly detailed, news-breaking look at the unprecedented political fight over Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court vacancy and the seemingly irreversible dysfunction it triggered across all three branches in the nation's capital--ultimately delivering us Trump, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh. The embodiment of American conservative thought and jurisprudence, Antonin Scalia cast an expansive shadow...

The president of the United States hires fixer Peter Rena to vet his nominee for the Supreme Court, but while Rena investigates every aspect of Judge Roland Madison's background, he discovers that the judge could be the next target in a series of killings. Peter Rena and Randi Brooks earn their living making the problems of the powerful disappear. Their new-- and biggest-- job: the White House hires them to vet the president's nominee for the Supreme...

In recent years the American public has witnessed several hard-fought battles over nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court. In these heated confirmation fights, candidates' legal and political philosophies have been subject to intense scrutiny and debate. Citizens, Courts, and Confirmations examines one such fight--over the nomination of Samuel Alito--to discover how and why people formed opinions about the nominee, and to determine how the confirmation...

When the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court drops dead following the inauguration, President Kerry Kilcannon selects as a replacement Judge Caroline Masters, a woman who hides a secret that could affect her ruling on a controversial case.

You don't need to depend on (or pay) a general contractor to manage your construction project. Whether you're building a new home or renovating an existing one, you can manage the job yourself. Carl Heldmann outlines how to purchase your own land, set a reasonable budget and schedule, describe your needs and vision to an architect, and hire subcontractors to do the actual building. Cut out the middleman and save as much as 25 percent on your beautiful...