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18 Aug 2013, 3:10 pm by Angelo A. Paparelli
 Whatever the underlying rationale for the RNC's muddled messaging, the Republican Party needs to develop a more appetizing and inviting policy, for even a majority of its traditional stalwarts, senior citizens, believes it's too extreme on immigration. [read post]
18 Aug 2013, 3:10 pm by Angelo A. Paparelli
 Whatever the underlying rationale for the RNC's muddled messaging, the Republican Party needs to develop a more appetizing and inviting policy, for even a majority of its traditional stalwarts, senior citizens, believes it's too extreme on immigration. [read post]
13 Jul 2016, 5:00 am by JB
Every time one imagines that political polarization has reached its peak, it finds ever new ways to increase.I have optimistically suggested that the two major political parties are about to begin a long process of depolarization. [read post]
15 Sep 2010, 11:48 am by Kent Scheidegger
  A majority of 51 means a party gets the committee chairs, but it doesn't mean the ability to ram its agenda through.So what do we get in criminal legislation with the Republicans having a narrow majority in the House, the Senate almost evenly divided, and a member of the Democratic party's lefter wing in the White House? [read post]
19 Sep 2018, 4:39 am by SHG
This doesn’t mean your good party will command a majority with its new wonderful choice of justice. [read post]
26 Aug 2008, 7:50 am
Justice Scalia, writing for the majority, said: [W]e have not held ... that the processes by which political parties select their nominees are, as respondents would have it, wholly public affairs that States may regulate freely. [read post]
17 May 2020, 7:04 pm by Tom Smith
During the last presidential campaign, Facebook board member and billionaire Peter Thiel was among Donald Trump’s most important backers, campaigning for the future president as a “proud,” openly gay supporter of the Republican nominee and even speaking at the Republican Party’s 2016 convention. [read post]
6 Apr 2017, 3:53 pm by Lyle Denniston
It is true that the partisan base of each national political party of today has become more insistent that nominees to the Supreme Court be chosen from among lower-court judges who are believed to have proven philosophies on the bench, in hopes that they won’t change once on the Supreme Court. [read post]
3 Apr 2023, 4:30 am by Michael C. Dorf
(Spoiler alert: It's bad for everybody, including both major parties.) [read post]
7 Nov 2022, 8:07 am by Guest Author
The party which captures this majority will exercise substantial responsibility for appointing lower federal court judges. [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 3:22 pm
PBS NewsHourWatch This SegmentListen to the AudioSupreme Court nominee Elena Kagan faced her first day of confirmation hearings in the Senate, with praise and criticism falling largely along party lines. [read post]
12 Apr 2017, 3:53 am by Edith Roberts
Ed Markey (D-Mass.) has vowed that “once his party regains the Senate majority — whenever that may be — Democrats will restore the 60-vote threshold needed to advance Supreme Court nominees, which was demolished by Republicans last week. [read post]
20 Jul 2016, 8:00 am by Ilya Somin
But he has attracted a wider range of expert opposition than any other major-party nominee in my lifetime. [read post]
6 Feb 2022, 4:48 am by Jonathan H. Adler
If it looks like President Biden's nominee will divide the Senate strictly along party lines, some will argue that the Vice President cannot break the tie. [read post]
10 Jul 2018, 8:25 am by Tom Smith
It led to a Trump administration pushing—and succeeding—to put a record number of federal appeals judged on the bench, with a Senate Republican majority abandoning traditions like the “blue slip” rule, which required at least one home state senator, regardless of party, to approve a judicial nominee. [read post]
10 Jul 2018, 8:25 am by Tom Smith
It led to a Trump administration pushing—and succeeding—to put a record number of federal appeals judged on the bench, with a Senate Republican majority abandoning traditions like the “blue slip” rule, which required at least one home state senator, regardless of party, to approve a judicial nominee. [read post]
28 Jul 2011, 9:38 am by Sandy Levinson
2) How, exactly, will the AE nominee be selected? [read post]
19 May 2016, 8:41 am by Jason Mazzone
Supreme Court pending and Donald Trump the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, this Article seeks to bring greater attention to these risks. [read post]