Today the Senate confirmed Justin Walker to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. President Donald Trump’s critics are crying foul, this time because the American Bar ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — By historical standards, the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson should have been a layup: A liberal Supreme Court pick who’s indisputably qualified, recently approved by the ...

"This was a trial by ordeal. She went through 24 hours of questioning," says Sen. Dick Durbin, chair of the Judiciary Committee. "I’m not sure that is really fair to any nominee." (Bloomberg) — ...

Article II of the Constitution requires that the sitting president nominate individuals to the Supreme Court and the Senate provide “advice and consent.” This is for the purpose of separation of ...

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 ...