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May 23, 2013 10:24 AM Special Prosecutors: Be Careful What You Wish For

There have been various calls in recent days for the appointment of an independent counsel to explore and expunge the IRS’s selective investigation of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status after 2009.From the right, Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal...

By Andrew Rudalevige

May 16, 2013 10:45 AM American Citizens as Enemy Combatants

During the April 2004 oral arguments in the Hamdi v Rumsfeld case about whether an American citizen could be detained indefinitely as an enemy combatant, Supreme Court Justice David Souter sought to probe the breadth of the Authorization for the...

By Andrew Rudalevige

May 13, 2013 10:18 AM Judicial Appointments: It's About Nominations, Not Confirmations

We still aren't getting new judicial nominees. It's now been about nine weeks since the White House convinced some gullible reporters that a flood of judges was coming. Since then, there's been barely a trickle. In particular, we're still waiting for...

By Jonathan Bernstein

April 25, 2013 11:58 AM Are Judicial Nominations Getting Any Better?

The good news is that the Senate is getting better at processing judicial nominations. The bad news? It's running out of nominations to process. Not because all the vacancies are filled. No, it's because the promised increased pace of judicial...

By Jonathan Bernstein

April 25, 2013 8:02 AM The Senate Reform Report Card

The Senate just voted unanimously to confirm Jane Kelly, nominated by the president for the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. This is how it's supposed to work! Kelly was nominated on January 31 of this year for a brand-new opening,...

By Jonathan Bernstein