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24 Jun 2018, 5:04 pm by Howard Bashman
“GOP Senator Threatens to Block Trump’s Judicial Nominees Over Trade Policies; Jeff Flake, one of the president’s sharpest Republican critics, says a number of his colleagues oppose tariffs and demand votes”: Del Quentin Wilber of The Wall Street Journal has this report. [read post]
4 Aug 2022, 11:55 am by Howard Bashman
Senate panel ties over Sixth Circuit nominee with history of gun control work; Rachel Bloomekatz drew Republican ire at her confirmation hearing for her work on several cases alongside Everytown for Gun Safety”: Rose Wagner of Courthouse News Service has this report. [read post]
30 Mar 2022, 6:00 am by Howard Bashman
Vote; Senator Susan Collins, a centrist from Maine, said a second meeting with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson alleviated her concerns; It is unclear if other Republicans will join her”: Carl Hulse of The New York Times has this report. [read post]
22 May 2016, 7:22 pm
"How Donald Trump Gained Power Over Senate Republicans With His Supreme Court List: He picked their friends, mentors and even family members for the job; Now let's see them oppose his agenda. [read post]
17 Oct 2019, 3:22 pm by Howard Bashman
Senate Advances Another Trump Court Pick Rated ‘Not Qualified’ To Serve; Justin Walker lacks the experience to be a lifetime federal judge, the American Bar Association says; But Republicans are ready to confirm him anyway”: Jennifer Bendery of HuffPost has this report. [read post]
1 Jun 2022, 9:48 am by Howard Bashman
“Supreme Court action on undated ballots in a Pennsylvania race is watched closely by Oz and McCormick; The Supreme Court paused the counting of undated mail-in ballots in a judicial race; Such ballots are also at issue in the state’s Republican Senate primary”: Neil Vigdor and Adam Liptak of The New York Times have this report. [read post]
13 Mar 2022, 5:40 pm by Howard Bashman
“Supreme Court nomination once again puts Susan Collins in spotlight; While not in a position to determine the outcome, the Maine senator is the most likely Republican vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson, who would be the first Black woman to serve on the court”: Colin Woodard of The Portland Press Herald has this report. [read post]
2 Oct 2024, 6:28 pm by Howard Bashman
Republicans expect to confirm even more Supreme Court justices if Trump wins; GOP senators anticipate that in a second term, Trump would have at least one Supreme Court vacancy to fill; Democrats hope that prospect motivates their voters this fall”: Sahil Kapur of NBC News has this report. [read post]
23 Mar 2022, 10:33 am by Howard Bashman
Republican Senators Seem Pretty Fired Up to Get Rid of Some Civil Rights; Some of the ‘questions’ posed to Ketanji Brown Jackson are thinly-veiled previews of where conservatives hope the Supreme Court will take the law in the years to come”: Lisa Needham has this post at Balls and Strikes. [read post]
1 Jul 2022, 7:00 pm by Howard Bashman
“Democrats run Washington, but the Supreme Court delivers big wins for GOP; The string of conservative victories shows why Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell used unusual and aggressive tactics to assemble the court’s 6-3 majority”: Sahil Kapur of NBC News has this news analysis. [read post]
30 Apr 2020, 6:40 pm by Howard Bashman
Senate Republicans to Push Ahead on Judges Over Democratic Objections; The Judiciary Committee is poised to consider the nomination of a McConnell protégé to an influential appeals court, while Democrats say the focus should be on the pandemic”: Carl Hulse of The New York Times has this report. [read post]
12 Sep 2018, 8:16 am by Howard Bashman
Republicans Confirmed A Lot Of Judges While Everyone Was Focused On Brett Kavanaugh; A second Supreme Court seat is only part of White House Counsel Don McGahn and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s push to transform the federal courts”: Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News has this report. [read post]
15 Oct 2020, 5:26 pm by Howard Bashman
Senate Republicans wave away SCOTUS threat to Obamacare; The GOP spent 10 years trying to repeal it; But amid the fight over Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation, they now say it’s not threatened”: Marianne LeVine and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico have this report. [read post]
14 Feb 2022, 10:26 am by Howard Bashman
“Judiciary senators vow not to rehash Kavanaugh during SCOTUS confirmation; Democrats and Republicans alike insist they’ve forgiven the other side after the fight surrounding Justice Brett Kavanaugh; But they certainly haven’t forgotten”: Marianne LeVine of Politico has this report. [read post]
29 Oct 2016, 11:07 am
"Tim Kaine: Democrats Will Nuke Filibuster For Supreme Court Nominees If GOP Won't Cooperate; Senate Republicans are already indicating they'll block any potential nominee put forward by Hillary Clinton. [read post]
3 Jul 2024, 8:02 am by Howard Bashman
McGahn II, the former White House counsel, and Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican, sweeping anti-regulatory rulings are the big payoff of their drive to reshape the federal courts”: Carl Hulse of The New York Times has this report. [read post]
18 Jul 2018, 10:10 am by Howard Bashman
“The Only Republican Opposing Brett Kavanaugh: Representative Justin Amash is the sole member of Congress who’s come out against the Supreme Court nominee, citing his record on privacy; Can he get Senator Rand Paul to join him? [read post]
30 Nov 2020, 6:22 am by Howard Bashman
“‘They’ll freeze them out’: Democrats fear Senate Republicans will block Biden’s judges; McConnell could stymie the president-elect’s ability to get his judicial nominations confirmed. [read post]
22 May 2017, 4:02 am by Scott Bomboy
In 2001, Trent Lott dismissed Robert Dove, the Senate Parliamentarian, after Republicans were angry that Dove, also a Republican appointee, disallowed spending measures as violating the Byrd Rules. [read post]