In an alumni-faculty forumFridaymorning, University Provost and President-elect Christopher Eisgruber ’83 moderated a panel discussion on the current state of the judicial confirmation process. “Not ...
Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. By J. Rich Leonard Special to the Observer The bruising confirmation fight of Supreme ...
Christina Nolan, a veteran federal prosecutor and nominee to be on the Vermont Supreme Court, takes questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Jan. 13.
Trump didn’t single-handedly break the Senate’s confirmation process. But a single event turned the judicial confirmation process into the kind of pure, bare-knuckled partisan cage match it is today.
Senate Republicans have altered chamber rules with a simple majority vote to expedite the confirmation process for President Donald Trump’s executive nominees, a move Democrats claim undermines ...