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Recess Appointments of Judges

The Left Picks Fight Against Charles Pickering

The Awful Scheme to Blanket Recess-Appoint Trump’s Cabinet Officers

Why the Federalist Society Has Been a Great Success

What Donald Trump's Victory Means for the Supreme Court

Holding Sonia Sotomayor Hostage

Misplaying the Race Card

Inside the Fight Against the Estrada Filibuster

Senate Democrats Filibuster D.C. Circuit Nominee Miguel Estrada

What Senate Democrats Blew Up in 2003

Filibusters and Cloture

Senate Democrats Target Miguel Estrada

Terrence Boyle's Fourth Circuit Nomination Stalls for Record Time

Answers to Trivia Questions on Baseball and the Supreme Court

Baseball and the Supreme Court

Left's Big Fight Against Nomination of Michael McConnell Fizzles

George W. Bush Boots American Bar Association

New Republican Senator Pushes Terrible Appellate Pick

Donald Trump and Supreme Court Appointments in a Second Term

Bush Extends Olive Branch to Senate Democrats

George W. Bush Aims for Strong Start on Judicial Nominations

The Least Significant Justice

58-42!

John Kerry Yodels for Alito Filibuster

Ted Kennedy’s CAP Attack on Alito Backfires

Alito's 1985 Job Application Declares His Principles

Alito Benefits from Colleague's 50-Year Friendship

Filibuster Politics Shape Strategies on Alito Nomination

Samuel Alito Gets Big Boost from Harriet Miers Fiasco

Pro-Lifers Try to Block Alito Nomination

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Harry Reid Botches Miers Nomination

Harriet Miers's Nomination Collapses

Conservatives Revolt Against Miers Nomination

George W. Bush Makes a Shocking Supreme Court Nomination

Answers to Judicial-Confirmation Trivia Questions

More Judicial-Confirmation Trivia Questions

The Umpire Strikes Back

On Rehnquist's Death, Bush Faces a Decision

Fishing for John Roberts's Executive-Branch Records

John Roberts’s Gay-Rights Surprise

Was John Roberts Ever a Member of Federalist Society?

Blogging Levels the Playing Field

The Best Defense Is A Good Offense

First Impressions Matter

Beards at the Supreme Court

The Day I Met John Roberts Changed My Life

Could Justice O'Connor Have Revoked Her Retirement Decision?

Rehnquist Stuns O'Connor Into Retiring

Arlen Specter Stumbles into Dream Role as Judiciary Committee Chairman