I thank The Heritage Foundation for inviting me here today to give my observations on the state of the judicial confirmation process. Most of you are aware of the all-out effort to defeat Judge ...

The confirmation process for President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, is set to begin Monday. It's part of an intense process where judicial nominees respond to both written ...

Key parts of President Biden’s agenda are falling victim to arcane Senate rules, and not just the filibuster. Dysfunction is slowing the Senate confirmation process to a crawl too, producing a backlog ...

Senate Democrats have been on a long march to change the process for evaluating a president’s judicial nominations. They changed the substantive standard in the mid 1980s by conditioning confirmation ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s demand that the Senate go into recess to allow his top appointees to take office without a confirmation vote would be a complete abdication of the chamber’s ...

Key Senate Republicans keep signaling their approach to the upcoming Supreme Court confirmation process will be one of “respect” rather than obstruction, to contrast with how they felt Democrats ...

The decision by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire will ignite a much-watched confirmation process in which President Joe Biden will attempt to place another liberal on the high court.