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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Senate Democrats have been on a long march to change the process for evaluating a president’s judicial nominations. They changed the substantive standard in the mid 1980s by conditioning confirmation ...