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Moderated by Mr. Taylor, the panelists talked about the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Other topics incl…

Senators Kennedy, Grassley, and Kyl, along with General Counsel Peck talked about President Bush’s nomination of Judge John Roberts to replace Justice O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court. The…

Participating by telephone, Ms. Binder spoke about the nomination of Judge John Roberts to replace retiring U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. She discussed background…

The Brookings Institution held a forum on the independence of the judiciary. The forum focused on the appointment and confirmation process, filibustering of nominees, the efforts to strip fe…

Ms. Binder talked about judicial filibusters. She addressed the politics and principles of the filibuster, Senate rules governing filibusters, the history and the use of filibusters in the S…

Ms. Binder talked about the history of judicial nominations, filibuster rules in the Senate, and recent calls for changes to Senate rules to prevent the filibuster of judicial nominations. S…