Sitemap - 2023 - Ed Whelan’s Confirmation Tales
2004 Senate Victories Pave Smooth Path to Supreme Court Confirmation
Preparing For Rehnquist's Resignation
My Bit Role in Ashcroft Hospital Saga
Alberto Gonzales as Supreme Court Candidate
Bill Clinton’s Lower-Court Appointments, By The Numbers
Senate Democrats Block Vote on Clinton Judicial Nominee
Ninth Circuit Contender Is Exposed As Pretender
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
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
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
Dodging Fight Over Bruce Babbitt, Clinton Nominates Stephen Breyer
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
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