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4 Jun 2014, 1:11 pm
I asked my longtime Brookings colleague Russell Wheeler, an expert on the federal judiciary, to take a dispassionate look at the numbers and the various proposals for changes to the court’s designation system. [read post]
6 May 2014, 7:35 pm
"),[3] Bertrand Russell ("One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision", seeWikiquote),[13] and Charles Darwin, whom they quoted in their original paper ("ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge").[2]Geraint Fuller, commenting on the paper, noted that Shakespeare expressed similar… [read post]
5 Apr 2014, 10:10 am
(For more data on nominations during Obama’s first term, see this report by Russell Wheeler.) [read post]
13 Nov 2013, 1:50 pm
Russell Wheeler and Lenni Benson on Real Clear Policy write about the need for dramatic improvements in the immigration coaurts and the grave need for access to counsel. [read post]
26 Sep 2013, 11:00 am
The following is my my prepared statement for today’s hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. [read post]
3 Dec 2012, 3:20 pm
The Brookings Institution's Russell Wheeler noted earlier this year in a progress report on judicial nominations that while Obama, at that point in his presidency had made fewer district court nominations than Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. [read post]
9 Aug 2012, 8:38 am
What Russell Wheeler found: "Obama's not doing so bad, as far as appeals court nominees go. [read post]
9 Aug 2012, 8:38 am
What Russell Wheeler found: "Obama's not doing so bad, as far as appeals court nominees go. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 11:44 am
"Obama's Judicial Confirmations at the Election Year Summer Recess, and Prospects for the Fall": Russell Wheeler of the Brookings Institution has posted this paper online today. [read post]
27 Jul 2012, 10:40 am
"I think the spotlight is more on McConnell than it is on Reid," said Russell Wheeler, a Brookings Institution fellow who has watched federal judicial nominations for decades. [read post]
28 May 2012, 11:18 am
The recommendations are backed up by a 133-page report by Law Professor Lenni Benson (I'm proud to say she was my former partner at Bryan Cave [see her here as she explains CIR's promise and peril in this 9-minute video]) and Russell Wheeler, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. [read post]
25 May 2012, 2:42 pm
The potpourri of recommendations is backed by a report from Lenni Benson (NYU) and Russell Wheeler (Brookings (formerly of the Federal Judicial Center)). [read post]
6 Apr 2012, 9:20 am
Russell Wheeler, the report’s author, highlights that only 38 percent of the president’s nominees are white males. [read post]
20 Mar 2012, 9:04 am
" The Brookings Institution has posted online this paper written by Russell Wheeler. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 8:13 am
In December 1833, the American Monthly Review commented on a newly published book by Joseph Story. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 5:59 am
"I think judges try to be bound by the facts, bound by the jury and bound by the law," said Russell Wheeler, a former deputy director of the Federal Judicial Center. [read post]
29 Feb 2012, 1:43 pm
The Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) draft report prepared by Lenni Benson and Russell Wheeler provides many recommendations for increasing the efficiency and quality of removal proceedings. [read post]
2 Feb 2012, 2:19 pm
By Russell Wheeler, a visiting fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program The judicial confirmation arena has been a battleground during the Obama administration, as it was during the Clinton and Bush administrations (described at greater length in a recent Brookings post from which this post is drawn). [read post]
27 Jan 2012, 11:16 am
“Retaliation against judicial nominees may make it harder for Obama to reduce the 80 vacancies on the federal bench at the end of 2011, or 25 more than when he took office,” the article notes, crediting Brookings Institution scholar Russell Wheeler. [read post]
25 Jan 2012, 10:15 am
A recent study by the Brookings Institution’s Russell Wheeler shows that vacancies on the federal bench have jumped during the president’s tenure, in part due to the mounting delays in the Senate of consideration of judicial nominations. [read post]
