Today the Senate confirmed Justin Walker to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. President Donald Trump’s critics are crying foul, this time because the American Bar ...

The deep partisan divide over Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s bitter confirmation hearing remains, even months later. A toxic cloud hangs over the Senate Judiciary Committee, and once-routine processes ...

WASHINGTON — Over the weekend President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the vacant seat on the Supreme Court. Many people online said they felt like the process is being rushed ...

Key parts of President Biden’s agenda are falling victim to arcane Senate rules, and not just the filibuster. Dysfunction is slowing the Senate confirmation process to a crawl too, producing a backlog ...

On Friday morning, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he and Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19, less than a week after a ceremony at the White House Rose Garden in which he ...

WASHINGTON — By historical standards, the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson should have been a layup: A liberal Supreme Court pick who’s indisputably qualified, recently approved by the ...

Article II of the Constitution requires that the sitting president nominate individuals to the Supreme Court and the Senate provide “advice and consent.” This is for the purpose of separation of ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s demand that the Senate go into recess to allow his top appointees to take office without a confirmation vote would be a complete abdication of the chamber’s ...

Key Senate Republicans keep signaling their approach to the upcoming Supreme Court confirmation process will be one of “respect” rather than obstruction, to contrast with how they felt Democrats ...

WASHINGTON -- For all the drama generated every four years by Cabinet appointments, defeat of a nominee by a vote in the Senate is extremely rare. The only time a nominee by a new president was ...