Replication data for: On Tournaments for Appointing Great Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court

Although Professors Choi and Gulati have unequivocally started a useful dialogue, we argue that their approach is so fraught with faulty assumptions and imperfect measures that to replace the current nomination procedures with the authors' tournament could lead to a series of harms that, in our view, may very well be serious than those we face under the existing system. In this article, we describe the drawbacks as we see them, and note that while the authors could readily fix so me of the defects, others are inherent to the tournament and thus could not be remedied without rejecting the approach altogether.