The Senate and Confirming Judicial Nominations
From C-SPAN's original production The Senate: Conflict and Compromise, this segment uses archival C-SPAN video to show the procedures and history of the Senate's power to confirm judicial nominations.
Description
From C-SPAN's original production The Senate: Conflict and Compromise, this segment uses archival C-SPAN video to show the procedures and history of the Senate's power to confirm judicial nominations.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- Why was Robert Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987 significant? How did this change how the Senate viewed the confirmation process?
- What agreement was reached in 2005 regarding confirming judicial nominees?
- How did the Democrats change the Senate rules in 2013?
- How did the Republicans change the Senate rules in 2017?
- What is the Senate’s role in the judicial nomination process?
- How has the confirmation process become more political?
Additional Resources
- C-SPAN Classroom Deliberations: Should the Senate Confirm a Supreme Court Nominee during a Presidential Election Year?
- C-SPAN Classroom Deliberations: What is the Role of the U.S. Senate During the Supreme Court Confirmation Process?
- Bell Ringer: The Constitutional Foundation for Presidential Appointments
Participants
Vocabulary
- Advice And Consent
- Cloture
- Confirmation Hearing
- Nomination
- Partisan
- Precedent
- Robert Bork