judicial confirmation

The politics of judicial confirmations has come down to simple math.

Working together, we can restore the judicial confirmation process.

But last month's election means Republicans will control the Senate and the judicial confirmation process beginning next month.

You disparage the Republicans' view that 51 votes should be enough for judicial confirmation.

Mr. Bush added that the judicial confirmation process was "broken and must be fixed for the good of our country."

This change in rules would eliminate the use of the filibuster to prevent judicial confirmation votes.

The move reflects a change in the group's policy against involvement in judicial confirmation battles.

The issue of judicial confirmations has always been wrapped up in politics, never more so than in an election year.

Just because third parties don't have a vote in judicial confirmation hearings doesn't mean they don't count.

The Pickering nomination has turned into the first major judicial confirmation fight of the Bush administration.

It was Mr. Bush's second defeat in a judicial confirmation fight.

The hearing again demonstrated the deep partisan differences that have defined the committee and the fight over judicial confirmations for the last two years.

Both had been tapped by the White House to build the coalition for judicial confirmation battles.

Senator Lugar believes that judicial confirmation decisions should not be purely partisan.

The dispute over the Disler materials demonstrates two features of the contemporary judicial confirmation process.

Just when it seemed the judicial confirmation process in the Senate had reached a nadir, Republicans this week set a new low.

Was it a demand for faster judicial confirmations?

That is how judicial confirmations are supposed to work, no matter which party is doing the nominating.

The Times, in an editorial, said the Republicans had reached "a new low" in the judicial confirmation process.

"The judicial confirmation process is broken, and the consequences for the American people are real," President Bush said after the vote.

But President Bush's comment that "the judicial confirmation process is broken" is off the mark.

Another conservative group, the Judicial Confirmation Network, also has local organizers in many states.

But much of the recent history of judicial confirmations has been about settling earlier scores from other confirmation fights.

In the end, the brutal public battle over judicial confirmations in the Senate comes down to two starkly different men.

But they are also poring over one another's comments in past judicial confirmation battles, looking for any evidence of hypocrisy, or at least inconsistency.