judicial nominations

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  2/8/2021
  

  Biden Can Advance Racial Justice, but Only if Democratic Senators Ditch an Old Tradition

  The Senate's "blue slip" rule allows senators to privately exercise a veto over judicial nominations for their state. Like the filibuster, it has been used to derail the nominations of liberal judges as well as women and judges of color. A liberal judicial advocate argues that it should be scrapped. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5-18-18
  

  Republicans Escalate Bitter Fight Over Judicial Nominations

  The Senate is entering a new phase of judicial battles as Republicans push aside Democrats' objections.

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• SOURCE: Social Science Research Network "The Politics of Early Justice, Lower Court Federal Judicial Selection 1789-1861"
  11-4-14
  

  New study: Judicial nominations have always been subject to partisanship

  by Michael J. Gerhardt and Michael Ashley Stein

  There never was a Golden Age.  These nominations were always political.