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 ...

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 ...

Christina Nolan, a veteran federal prosecutor and nominee to be on the Vermont Supreme Court, takes questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Jan. 13.

President Donald Trump has dodged the confirmation processes for several top federal prosecutors across the country, often opting to install them via loopholes instead. When interim U.S. Attorney for ...

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 ...

Trump didn’t single-handedly break the Senate’s confirmation process. But a single event turned the judicial confirmation process into the kind of pure, bare-knuckled partisan cage match it is today.

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 ...