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8 Jun 2023, 10:48 am
" That is, the January 6 session allows simple majorities of both houses to find fault with an election under the flimsiest of pretexts and then to recognize their own party's nominee as the legitimate winner. [read post]
1 May 2009, 2:05 am
We see how short sighted these predictions proved to be.John McCain, the party's nominee, received some 46 percent of the popular vote in the 2008 election. [read post]
24 Feb 2016, 3:58 pm
Thus the letter to the Senate Majority Leader signed by every Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee announcing that there will be no hearings “on any Supreme Court nominee until after our next President is sworn in. [read post]
24 Feb 2010, 9:51 am
Gore, for instance, the strategic concerns of the Democratic and Republican nominees for President often displaced the distinct concerns of voters in determining the number of challenged counties where balloting was in dispute. [read post]
13 Feb 2016, 4:09 pm
Even if the nominee is rejected, political progress will have been made.I predict that candidates and their supporters in both parties will overplay their hand and get into trouble. [read post]
12 May 2009, 11:00 am
Most Republicans (56%) and voters not affiliated with either major party (50%) stress legal skills as the most important factor in the choosing of a high court nominee. [read post]
4 Jul 2009, 11:56 am
Last August, I wrote a couple of posts arguing that The West Wing had broadly predicted the rough political, personal, and ideological outlines of both halves of the presidential tickets for both major parties, including Republican VP candidate (social conservative small-state governor included to appeal to an unenthusiastic conservative base and balance a distrusted moderate at the top of the ticket). [read post]
7 Nov 2016, 8:00 am
State Law The majority of states recognize a political-vote privilege. [read post]
7 Nov 2016, 8:00 am
State Law The majority of states recognize a political-vote privilege. [read post]
14 Apr 2016, 2:02 pm
While the Republican-controlled Senate seems steadfastly opposed to meeting with (much less approving) Merrick Garland, the President’s nominee to replace the late Justice Scalia, it is hardly obvious that Garland, if approved, would join a majority to overrule Citizens United. [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 11:32 am
(David Kopel) No, I’m not talking about the Paraguayan political party. [read post]
21 Sep 2015, 3:30 am
In The National Law Journal (subscription or registration required), Tony Mauro reports that the Court “has emerged as a political flashpoint, with candidates from both parties attacking justices and pledging to use ‘litmus tests’ to ensure ideological discipline in their future nominees. [read post]
1 Oct 2018, 1:47 pm
That further reduces both the quality of political discourse, and the quality of the policies advocated by both major parties. [read post]
27 Nov 2018, 4:15 am
I think that she hurt the Democratic Party. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 12:40 pm
Be it pressing the Speaker or the Senate majority leader, or the new hope running for President. [read post]
19 Aug 2016, 11:16 am
Both of these decisions were political calculations that seemed clever at the time, but which turned out to have disastrous consequences for the Republican Party. [read post]
29 Jul 2020, 6:30 am
The third thread is also forward-looking, but it looks beyond existing allocations of political power and asks what Democrats might do in the near and far-term given that the Supreme Court may invalidate any major Democratic legislation and regulation while further entrenching economic and racial inequality. [read post]
31 May 2019, 6:00 am
Both sides of the political spectrum agreed that, to defuse a political crisis, the Chief “rewrote” the text of the ACA (per the bitter dissent by his four conservative colleagues), “contorted logic and reason” (per then presumptive Vice Presidential nominee, Paul Ryan), and either “betrayed” conservatives (National Review’s Thomas Sowell) or, in a more generous interpretation, displayed “statesmanship” (The… [read post]
28 Sep 2020, 6:17 am
As so often happens, liberals are being drawn into the right’s frame (namely, “we must, as a common political community, examine the qualifications of the nominee, and then vote to confirm or deny the nominee based on the nominee’s record”). [read post]
6 Apr 2016, 6:02 am
" It's fair politics. [read post]
