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An Examination of the Judicial Conduct and Disability System

April 25, 2013, Russell Wheeler

What's Behind all Those Judicial Vacancies Without Nominees?

April 18, 2013, Russell Wheeler

Strangeness at Guantanamo

January 29, 2013, Paul R. Pillar

Filling Judicial Vacancies In Obama's Second Term—Some Prospects

January 28, 2013, Russell Wheeler

Putin's Artful Jurisprudence

January 2, 2013, William Partlett

Judicial Nominations and Confirmations in Obama’s First Term

December 13, 2012, Russell Wheeler

Egypt’s Democratic Dictator?

December 3, 2012, Omar Ashour

Are We All Copyright Infringers?

October 28, 2012, John Villasenor

I have no doubt the next president will decide what happens to Roe v. Wade by his appointments to the Supreme Court.

October 3, 2012, Elisabeth Jacobs, Glamour

Whether you agree with it or not, the Supreme Court has become almost as much a political institution as it is a legal one...For one, the cases that come before the Court are very often politically charged. Furthermore, you have nine justices that are there for life and can, for all intents and purposes, act with impunity

October 1, 2012, Russell Wheeler, Erickson Tribune

Will Drones Outflank the Fourth Amendment?

September 20, 2012, John Villasenor

The Case for Confirming District Court Judges

September 18, 2012, Russell Wheeler

Obama’s Judicial Confirmations at the Election Year Summer Recess, and Prospects for the Fall

August 2, 2012, Russell Wheeler

It's hard to know what explains the dearth of Obama nominees compared to recent predecessors, but I have to think that increased threats by home-state senators to withhold blue slips is part of the answer.

June 18, 2012, Russell Wheeler, National Law Journal

Judicial Confirmations: What Thurmond Rule?

March 19, 2012, Russell Wheeler

Trial Court Judges and Math, Senate Style

March 13, 2012, Sarah A. Binder

Judicial Nominations and Confirmations after Three Years—Where Do Things Stand?

January 13, 2012, Russell Wheeler

What’s So Hard About Regulating Supreme Court Justices’ Ethics? — A Lot

November 28, 2011, Russell Wheeler

Options for Federal Judicial Screening Committees (Second Edition)

September 13, 2011, Rebecca Love Kourlis and Russell Wheeler

Regulating the Ethics of Supreme Court Justices?

March 21, 2011, Russell Wheeler

Breaking the Judicial Nominations and Confirmations Logjam

February 28, 2011

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Do Judicial Emergencies Matter? Nomination and Confirmation Delay during the 111th Congress

February 16, 2011, Sarah A. Binder and Russell Wheeler

Confirming Evidence: The Breakdown in Advice and Consent

January 4, 2011, Sarah A. Binder

Judicial Nominations and Confirmations in the 111th Senate and What to Look For in the 112th

January 4, 2011, Russell Wheeler

Is Filtering Censorship? The Second Free Speech Tradition

December 27, 2010, Tim Wu