Senate Maneuverings
…senator of a judicial nominee could put a hold on the nomination; The tradition of anonymous floor holds on judicial appointments; The traditional courtesy that at least one minority-party member…
…senator of a judicial nominee could put a hold on the nomination; The tradition of anonymous floor holds on judicial appointments; The traditional courtesy that at least one minority-party member…
…camaraderie, and speeches about the treatment of Bush’s judicial nominations. They want to draw attention to the fact that Senate Democrats, through the use of filibusters, have blocked the nomination…
…toxic stew of attacks on Muslims, women, Latinos, and each other.” The most current crisis started in 2013 where the Republican Senate has stalled the process of judicial appointments to…
…Roberts’ annual state-of-the-judicial-branch report, in which he was writing in his capacity as administrative head of that branch, not in his actual judicial capacity, and not for the other justices….
…Late last fall,shortly after President Obama announced that his choice for Attorney General was Loretta Lynch, the U.S. Attorney for the federal judicial district in New York that includes Staten…
…and judicial appointees, which Clinton is now, finally, campaigning on. Among last weekend’s (I think; I’ve lost track specifically) WikiLeak’s hacked Podesta-emails dump, there were two that just took my…
…constitutional principles or judicial methodology. There is a desire to think that law exists apart from the identity and ideology of the justices. But that is a myth when it…
…should be formed to prevent the abuse of it. “[T]hose who are to be vested with [the judicial power in the US Constitution], are to be placed in a situation…
…is a modern-day lie about history that presents itself as historical. And originalism, marketed in the 1980s and ’90s as, at bottom, a theory of judicial restraint, has now become…
…law school deans and professors, law firm partners, and former judges have signed a letter calling on all government officials — including President Trump — to obey judicial decisions. Here’s…