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15 Oct 2020, 5:00 am by James Romoser
Republicans expect to wrap up the nomination hearings Thursday, with a committee vote expected after a one-week procedural delay. [read post]
15 Oct 2020, 4:03 am by SHG
At the close of questioning, Judiciary Committee chair Lindsay Graham made the point that, for a nominee from a Republican president, she was fully qualified, just as was Justices Kagan and Sotomayor as nominees from a Democratic president. [read post]
14 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Your assumption of all republican support of President Trump being blind, is opinion and merely that. [read post]
14 Oct 2020, 6:55 pm by Howard Bashman
“Amy Coney Barrett Closes Out Testimony, on Track for Senate Approval; Republicans line up behind Supreme Court nominee while Democrats suggest she is a threat to widely accepted rights”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report. [read post]
14 Oct 2020, 4:41 pm by Howard Bashman
“‘Severability’ Could Save Health Law, Graham Says and Barrett Seems to Agree; Warnings from Democrats that Republicans and their Supreme Court nominee threaten the Affordable Care Act elicited reassuring words from both Senator Lindsey Graham and Judge Amy Coney Barrett”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. [read post]
Republican Senators focused on Barrett’s qualifications and professionalism. [read post]
14 Oct 2020, 11:50 am by Ilya Somin
Judge Amy Coney Barrett testifies at her Senate confirmation hearing. [read post]
14 Oct 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization Symposium on  Alexander Keyssar, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? [read post]
14 Oct 2020, 6:16 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Indeed, were term limits already in place, there would be a 5-4 split on the Court in favor of Republican appointees. [read post]
14 Oct 2020, 4:54 am by SHG
But the specific issue raised by Senator Blumenthal is an important one. [read post]
13 Oct 2020, 10:35 pm by James Romoser
Rebuked by Democrats The 12 Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee praised her credentials and said she would be a justice who would neutrally follow the original meaning of the Constitution. [read post]
13 Oct 2020, 8:54 pm by Alan J. Borsuk
In 2011, Dale Schultz was a Republican state senator from Richland Center and he voted for a plan created by Republicans to draw new boundaries for legislative districts in Wisconsin that helped the party grow and solidify its control of the legislature. [read post]
13 Oct 2020, 8:24 pm by David Friedman
 The Arkansas senate contest is a two person race between the Republican incumbent and the Libertarian candidate, the Democratic candidate having for some reason dropped out. [read post]
13 Oct 2020, 6:50 am by Jeremy T. Rosenblum and Mindy Harris
We recently published a blog about the OCC’s proposed rule “National Banks and Federal Savings Associations as Lenders” (the “Proposed Rule”), which would clarify that a bank (or savings association) is properly regarded as the “true lender” when, as of the date of origination, it is named as the lender in a loan agreement or funds the loan. [read post]
Republican Senators sought to make the hearing about Barrett’s Catholicism, while Democrats focused on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Roe v Wade. [read post]
13 Oct 2020, 4:00 am by James Romoser
Judge Amy Coney Barrett introduced herself to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday — but only after senators from both parties spent most of the day doing the talking. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 8:05 pm by Marty Lederman
”  I therefore concur that Senators would be well-advised to avoid the subject in the confirmation hearings this week. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 6:48 pm by Howard Bashman
“Amy Coney Barrett papers over rift between Trump and GOP; Republicans are resisting Trump on stimulus and fear he may sink their Senate majority”: Burgess Everett and John Bresnahan of Politico have this report. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 6:44 pm by Howard Bashman
Also online at Slate, Jeremy Stahl has a jurisprudence essay titled “Senate Republicans Defend Themselves Against Their Own Arguments from 2016. [read post]