Ann Althouse reviews Richard Davis, “ELECTING JUSTICE: Fixing the Supreme Court Nomination Process,” in the NY Times Book Review. The review begins: “WHEN a president announces a new Supreme Court nominee, he may say he has selected the best person for the job, but nobody really believes him. The nominees present themselves as sober, worthy expositors of legal principle, but their supporters resort to press-friendly life stories of struggles through poverty and oppression, and opponents and proponents alike grandstand on the same kind of hot-button issues — notably abortion — that they use to grab the public’s attention in political campaigns. In his new book, ”Electing Justice,” Richard Davis, a professor of political science at Brigham Young University, argues that the process of selecting Supreme Court justices, originally intended as an elite interplay between the president and the Senate, has become so politicized that we ought to cast off the remnants of elitism and simply hold elections for justices. “