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18 Apr 2007, 11:16 am
And unlike Bush, who indulged the political luxury of using coded references to Dred Scott, the next GOP nominee will have a hard time avoiding taking a clear stand on this issue. [read post]
15 Jul 2018, 9:42 am by David Super
  By making the majority party pay a high price for each nominee, this restored confirmation pipeline became a relatively narrow one. [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 11:22 am
We announced recently that we would be sending the presumptive nominees of the two major political parties for President some questions on special education law. [read post]
18 Jul 2013, 1:24 pm by Gerard N. Magliocca
 Largely because both parties have a vested interest in reserving the right to unilaterally block things (unless one party has a lopsided majority). [read post]
11 Jul 2008, 4:47 pm
It's been two days since the presumptive nominee of a major political party declared the most popular and successful government program in American history to be "a disgrace. [read post]
5 Sep 2016, 8:10 am by Ilya Somin
But it is increasingly clear that he is far preferable to either of the major party nominees, particularly on constitutional issues. [read post]
14 Feb 2016, 10:34 am by Jonathan H. Adler
It would also make it easier to evaluate judicial nominees on the merits, and lower the political stakes of the confirmation process. [read post]
11 Jan 2017, 9:01 am by Tejinder Singh
Even when he does not write the majority opinion, he often reveals his thinking in concurrences and dissents. [read post]
16 Mar 2016, 2:19 pm by Ilya Somin
But it is politically difficult for senators to oppose nominees by a president of their own party, especially if it means undercutting him early on in his presidency. [read post]
27 Jun 2018, 11:49 am by Lyle Denniston
It is not uncommon, though, for a Justice who got to the Court as a nominee of a president of one of the political parties to hand the seat back to that party if it controls the White House at the time. [read post]
4 Sep 2018, 1:39 pm by Ilya Somin
If Trump's authoritarian nationalism becomes the new normal in GOP politics going forward, I still fear it will affect judicial nominations over time, as was true of previous ideological transformations within the major parties. [read post]
8 Feb 2021, 11:35 am by Derek T. Muller
Underage or non-citizen candidates rarely attempt to run for president, and major political parties winnow out ineligible candidates. [read post]
14 Feb 2016, 1:33 pm by Neil Siegel
 Although Obama can reasonably claim that the ability to nominate a new Justice falls within his four-year electoral mandate, Senate Republicans can similarly claim that ensuring that the nominee is politically acceptable falls within their electoral mandate. [read post]
1 Jun 2016, 7:33 am by Rick Pildes
In most systems, elected party members take a major role in choosing or filtering potential candidates. . . . [read post]
23 Feb 2020, 2:24 am
Top campaign strategists from both parties view Sanders’s success as a potentially tectonic event, which could narrow the party’s already slim hopes of retaking the Senate majority and fuel GOP dreams of reclaiming the House, which it lost amid a Democratic romp in 2018.... 'The Democrats’ embrace of socialism is going to cost them their majority — I mean, it’s as simple as that,' said Rep. [read post]
8 Mar 2016, 1:45 pm by Lovechilde
   The inevitable Republican refusal to hold confirmation hearings for such an otherwise  unassailable Supreme Court nominee must then become a major political issue. [read post]
30 Jan 2012, 5:16 am by Jonathan H. Adler
It is still early enough that neither party knows who will win the Presidency this fall, or even who will hold a Senate majority. [read post]