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Top Ten of 2023

Ideas for Christmas Gifts

2004 Senate Victories Pave Smooth Path to Supreme Court Confirmation

Preparing For Rehnquist's Resignation

My Bit Role in Ashcroft Hospital Saga

Happy Thanksgiving!

Alberto Gonzales as Supreme Court Candidate

Prepare For Turbulence Ahead

Bill Clinton’s Lower-Court Appointments, By The Numbers

Senate Democrats Block Vote on Clinton Judicial Nominee

Ninth Circuit Contender Is Exposed As Pretender

Blue Slips and Red States

The Messy Reality of a Republican Senate Majority

Bob Dole Puts Judges At Center Of 1996 Presidential Campaign

Bill Clinton Pressures Own Judicial Appointee To Reverse ‘Stupid’ Ruling For Drug Dealer

Senate Republicans Learn to Use Their Majority Muscle

Judicial Retirements and Judicial Vacancies

Answers to Trivia Questions on Secretaries of Labor and Supreme Court Justices

Labor Day Trivia Questions

Orrin Hatch Becomes Judiciary Committee Chairman

From Ginsburg and Breyer to the Present

Bill Clinton Abandons Peter Edelman Twice

Peter Edelman Leaks the News of His Impending D.C. Circuit Nomination

New Republican Majority Dooms Nominee

1994 Republican Senate Candidates Fight on Judges

What Senate Deference On Lower-Court Nominations Meant

Leading Democrats Vote Against Clinton's Strident Liberal Nominee

Intermezzo

Judicial-Confirmation Trivia Answers

Judicial-Confirmation Trivia Questions

Did Breyer Nomination Cost Al Gore the 2000 Presidential Election?

The Intrigue Behind How Stephen Breyer Became A Federal Judge

Correction

Dodging Fight Over Bruce Babbitt, Clinton Nominates Stephen Breyer

Replacing Harry Blackmun

Senate Republicans Oppose Clinton's Terrible Eleventh Circuit Pick

Clinton Pledges To "Change The Face" Of The Lower Courts

Judge José Cabranes Recounts His Supreme Court Candidacy

"No Forecasts, No Hints"

Joe Biden Embarrasses Elena Kagan (and I Console Her)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s “Inexorable Zero” of Black Employees

The Supreme Court Nominee Who Would Abolish Mother’s Day

Why Ginsburg's Age Didn't Doom Her Candidacy

Bill Clinton’s Litmus Test on Roe v. Wade

Clinton’s Tortuous 86-Day Selection Process

Why Orrin Hatch Was Eager to Help Bill Clinton

*That* Sure Wasn’t In My Talking Points

Signing On With Senator Orrin Hatch

Introducing Confirmation Tales