Senate Republicans have altered chamber rules with a simple majority vote to expedite the confirmation process for President Donald Trump’s executive nominees, a move Democrats claim undermines ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Nexstar) — On Monday, the Senate Judiciary Committee began the confirmation process of President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett. Democrats, Republicans and ...

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.

The two nominees tapped to fill upcoming vacancies on the Vermont Supreme Court answered questions from members of the state senate at a Tuesday hearing. Veteran attorneys Christina Nolan and Michael ...

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 ...