For all the drama generated every four years by Cabinet appointments, defeat of a nominee by a vote in the Senate is extremely rare. The only time a nominee by a new president was rejected by a Senate ...
Key parts of President Biden’s agenda are falling victim to arcane Senate rules, and not just the filibuster. Dysfunction is slowing the Senate confirmation process to a crawl too, producing a backlog ...
When President Joe Biden selected Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, he was choosing among a pool of candidates whose qualifications provided an embarrassment of riches.
New York Times reporter Carl Hulse recently noted that "the Republican manhandling of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson … was convincing evidence that the Senate's Supreme Court confirmation process is ...
In the coming weeks, President Biden will nominate a candidate to replace Breyer. He has pledged to nominate a Black female to the Court. In the lead-up to the announcement, the White House will ...
Michael Delaney is a fine attorney, a fine man and an involved citizen. He is an exemplary family man. When he was nominated to be a judge on the First Circuit Court of Appeals, the first reaction of ...
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