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March 26, 2009 1:45 pm
White House Sets Texas’ Senators Straight On the Judicial Selection Process
…A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about judicial nominations that linked to this Congressional Research Service report from last year entitled “Role of Home State Senators in…
October 7, 2008 4:43 pm
Dubya’s Judicial Victory Lap Marred By Memory Lapse
…recounted his battles over the issue of judicial nominees and reminded his audience that, just as he had promised, he put two new justices on the Supreme Court who shared…
October 27, 2016 12:15 pm
Facing White House Loss, Conservative Groups Dig In On Judicial Obstruction
…As polls show Donald Trump’s chances of winning the presidency continue to dwindle, GOP politicians and their conservative allies are promising that the obstruction of judicial nominees that they…
February 14, 2018 2:18 pm
Conservative Legal Activist Says Trump’s Judicial Nominees Are 92% White Because He Isn’t Meeting A ‘Quota’
…judicial nominees since Ronald Reagan, even though “minority enrollment in law schools has nearly tripled” since Ronald Reagan’s presidency. Trump’s 87 federal judicial nominees include just one African American, one…
November 16, 2006 7:10 pm
Bush Resubmits ‘Burble-Gurgle’ Judicial Nominees as a ‘Sop to the Right’?
…Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-New York). Jay Sekulow, the chief counsel for Pat Robertson’s American Center for Law and Justice and an advisor to the Bush administration on judicial nominations, is…
May 27, 2009 11:04 am
Right Wing Reaction to Sotomayor
…already doesn’t like her: Family Research Council: “President Obama has chosen a nominee with a compelling personal story over judicial pick with a solid constitutional judicial philosophy. A compelling personal…
April 10, 2009 12:11 pm
The Judicial Nominations Fight, Through the Eyes of the Right
…World Magazine has a good article on President Obama and the issue of judicial nominations … and by “good” I mean an exhaustive listing of all of the complaints…
March 23, 2009 11:26 am
One Judicial Nominee In, The Battle Has Already Begun
…Last week we noted how, right out of the gate, one of the Right’s primary talking points in justifying its immediate opposition top President Obama’s first judicial nominee, was…
February 10, 2009 3:21 pm
The Amazing Transformation of the Judicial Confirmation Network
…Again, I feel compelled to ask why the folks at the Judicial Confirmation Network, an organization created by Jay Sekulow back in 2005 in order to press for the…
June 20, 2017 1:22 pm
Trump Judicial Nominee Promoted Work Of Right Wing Conspiracy Theorists in Blog Posts
…Way has opposed, Bush was forced to defend a blog post he had written citing WorldNetDaily, a website infamous for promoting the birther conspiracy theory. But that wasn’t the only…