Politico: While the White House is focused this week on shepherding Trump’s first Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, through the Senate confirmation process, the president and his team are obsessed with the next possible vacancy. The likeliest candidate is Kennedy,… Continue reading

Charlie Savage in the NYT: The conventional political narrative as Judge Neil M. Gorsuch’s Supreme Court nomination nears its endgame is that liberals want at least 40 Senate Democrats to follow through on their threat to stall him with a… Continue reading

I have written this piece for Washington Post’s “Post Everything.”  It begins: Judge Neil Gorsuch, whose nomination to the Supreme Court is expected to be voted on by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday, is an affirmative action baby. But… Continue reading

I’d like to hear Judge Gorsuch supporters explain why these Senators in particular were not extended a normal courtesy.

Missoulian: Anthony Johnstone – professor at the University of Montana’s law school –previously served as state solicitor and during that time wrote an amicus brief in the Citizens United case on behalf of 26 states asking the high court to… Continue reading

Bauer blogs.

Thoughtful Jonathan Bernstein, taking a different position than I have: And so barring a real compromise, my advice to Democrats would be pretty simple. Forget about long-term strategy and trying to figure out the ideal time to use … Continue reading

KC Star: McCaskill made a distinction between using the filibuster to block Gorsuch, who would replace Scalia, arguably the court’s most conservative justice during his tenure, and using it to block a nominee if one of the court’s more liberal… Continue reading

Eric Segall in the Daily Beast. I would have been in favor of the Senate Democrats boycotting the hearings and the vote altogether in protest of what happened to Merrick Garland. But it is too late to play that card.… Continue reading