THE SENATE’S BROKEN CONFIRMATION PROCESS

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• How to End the Judicial Confirmation Wars: It would be better to openly acknowledge the truth of the matter. The court is the site of power plays, because the court is powerful. It seems nothing short of preposterous to believe that certain “norms” of comity and deference to the executive will hold up under these conditions.
  Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/07/how-to-end-the-judicial-confirmation-wars/564188/
• Departure From the Judicial Confirmation Process: With five actions, the White House and Senate majority have broken the process to confirm many nominees to lifetime positions.
  Read more: https://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/broken-process-an-unprecedented-senate-judicial-nomination-hearing/
• Senate Republicans Steamroll Judicial Process: ‘Advice’ dwindles in the GOP’s rush for judges.
  Read more: https://www.rollcall.com/news/policy/the-senates-consent-machine
• Fixing the Broken Supreme Court Nomination Process: What would it take to expose and fix the inequalities that plague the current nomination process to our nation’s highest court?
  Read more: https://theconversation.com/fixing-a-broken-process-for-nominating-us-supreme-court-justices-104629
• How the Republicans Broke the Senate in Confirming Kavanaugh: “Republicans executed a brute power play. A letter from one woman about an awful event more than 35 years ago was nothing against a decades-long, well-funded effort to remake the federal judiciary. As they executed this particular play, Republicans went a step further and shoved aside all pretense that the Senate is a representative, competent decision-making body. Destroy the process, threaten anyone who stands in the way, gaslight your opponents if possible — the will to power was unrelenting.”
  Read more: https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/how-republicans-broke-senate-confirming-kavanaugh
• Supreme Court Hearings are Broken, Both Parties Say. Here’s How They Can be Fixed. Senators of both parties complain that Supreme Court hearings today yield little useful information, with nominees wary of saying anything that might look like prejudging a case. But experts cite past examples that could foster greater insight — and greater civility
  Read more: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2018/0907/Supreme-Court-hearings-are-broken-both-parties-say.-How-they-can-be-fixed

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