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GOP Opposition to Judicial Nominations: What’s the Precedent?

June 13, 2013, Sarah A. Binder

As the Senate Judiciary Committee prepares for hearings on President Obama's nominees for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, Sarah Binder tracks the history of confirmation processes to discern whether the GOP’s mounting opposition to the nominees has precedent.

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    Appointing judges to existing vacancies is not court-packing. It's simply the way the system works. ... It's hard for me to believe that behind this so-called court efficiency proposal is not an effort to keep the court's active judgeships balanced with four Republican appointees and four Democratic appointees.

    May 29, 2013, Russell Wheeler, National Public Radio

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    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

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    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

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    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, The National Law Journal

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    @ Brookings Podcast: Obama's Nominees to Federal Judgeships Lag

    December 24, 2010, Russell Wheeler

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    Beyond the Senate Confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor

    August 7, 2009, Russell Wheeler

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    President Obama's Court Nominations

    March 20, 2009, Russell Wheeler

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    Senate Rules Changes: Filibustering of Judicial Nominees

    March 30, 2005, E.J. Dionne, , Jr.

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