Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. By J. Rich Leonard Special to the Observer The bruising confirmation fight of Supreme ...
Thomas Jipping is a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. One of the Senate’s most important responsibilities is to provide ...
In an alumni-faculty forumFridaymorning, University Provost and President-elect Christopher Eisgruber ’83 moderated a panel discussion on the current state of the judicial confirmation process. “Not ...
Adam Pack is a contributor to the Daily Caller News Foundation. DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Senate Republicans are on the verge of breaking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s stranglehold over ...
The vote follows a procedural change allowing the confirmation of multiple non-judicial nominees at once, aiming to clear a backlog. The Senate has confirmed 48 of President Donald Trump’s nominees in ...
Senator Moy Valdez said the public should be given an opportunity to know who is being considered for executive cabinet positions. (Henry Kofman / Daily Trojan file photo) After extensive debate about ...