The U.S. Senate established the Committee on the Judiciary on December 10, 1816, as one of the original 11 standing committees. It is also one of the most powerful committees in Congress; among its wide range of jurisdictions is investigation of federal judicial nominees and oversight of crimi...
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"The more partisan the voting becomes, the less belief that the public is likely to have that Congress is making a merit-based or qualifications-based assessment of judicial nominees," the liberal justice said on the Senate confirmation process. Biden's nomination of Jackson for the Supreme Cour...
A controversial White House nominee to the federal bench will have his day before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week. Georgia Court of Appeals JudgeMichael Boggs,tapped by President Obama to sit on the U.S. District Court in Atlanta, is one of seven judicial nominees scheduled to appear...
Home-state senators have no formal power to block a nominee, and past Judiciary Committee Chairs have given different weight to their recommendations. But Senator Dick Durbin, the current Judiciary Committee Chair, will not consider judicial nominees at the district court level unless both home-state...
John Roberts on Tuesday turned down Dick Durbin’s request to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week, claiming that doing so could pose a risk to the Supreme Court’s “judicial independence” and suggesting that the high court is not in need of reform. “I must respectfully ...
Before the action this weekend, Leahy said some 30 Obama judicial nominees, including seven to fill appeals court vacancies, were awaiting Senate confirmation. "A majority of the nominations pending on the Senate's calendar received unanimous support from the Senate Judiciary Committee, and 17 of ...
In April,PBS NewsHourreported, “Republicans blocked a Democratic request to temporarily replace California Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, leaving Democrats with few options for moving some of President Joe Biden’s stalled judicial ...
“I’m interested in filling all of the judicial vacancies,” said Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), a member of the Judiciary Committee. “I’m not necessarily looking at ‘Oh, we have to beat Trump.’ That’s not my focus.”
The Senate Judiciary Committee does not have the resources to conduct in-depth background checks of Cabinet or federal judicial nominees if the FBI does not conduct them, Chair Dick Durbin said Monday. “What the FBI pours into these nominees, we can't match at the Senate Judicia...