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Shortening Agency and Judicial Vacancies Through Filibuster ... » May 7, 2015 ...confirmation rates for both agency and judicial nominees and to the confirmation pace for judicial ....A14 (noting that nearly 25 percent of senior State Department and about 30 percent of senior Commerce Department jobs ....FIXGOV (Dec. 30, 2013, 10:33 AM), http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgov/posts/. Scholarship.law.duke.edu

Pro-Constitutional Representation: Comparing the Role Obligations ... » Oct 28, 2010 ...The role of the judge in a constitutional democracy has occupied the time and attention of .....at 221-22 (noting that lobbyists raise campaign contributions as a way to gain access to legislators, with atten- ......INGS (July 7, 2015, 7:00 AM), http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgov/posts/2015/07/07-just-say-. Scholarship.law.wm.edu

Judicial Nominations and Confirmations: Fact and Fiction » Dec 30, 2013 ...Vacancies and nominee-less vacancies Despite the uptick in nominations, Obama faces more judicial vacancies than in 2009 or January 2013. ... Confirmations Obama's five year success rate in getting circuit nominees confirmed—76 percent—is almost the same as Bush's and Clinton's, although without... Brookings.edu

Transforming the "Thurmond Rule" in 2016 | » Finding that each party reinterprets the notion to stymie appointments—which perverts the selection process, deprives courts of judicial resources for .....views from President Bush and the Senate in 2008); Russell Wheeler, Is a 112 Percent Increase in Judicial Vacancies Par for the Course?, Brookings Inst. (June 6, 2016 ),... Law.emory.edu

July 2016 RUSSELL R. WHEELER President, The Governance ... » Jul 1, 2016 ...Russell Wheeler (July 2016). P. 5. Selected recent blog posts, op-eds, etc. (on Brookings Institution website unless otherwise noted). Is a 112 Percent Increase in Judicial Vacancies Par for the Course? June 2016 http://www.brookings.edu/ blogs/fixgov/posts/2016/06/06-judicial-vacancies-senior-status-. Brookings.edu

Is a 112 percent increase in judicial vacancies par for the course? » Jun 6, 2016 ...Judicial confirmations have moved at a snail's pace since Senate control changed hands in January 2015. The majority's justification is that, overall, the Senate has confirmed more Obama nominees than it had President Bush's at the same point in his presidency: Majority Leader McConnell in April: “No... Brookings.edu

Colorado's Rollout of Legal Marijuana Is Succeeding: A Report on ... » FixGov Blog, The Brookings Institution. Prior to joining Brookings,. John served as the program ....It is too early to judge the success of Colorado's policy, but it is not too early to say that the rollout—initial ....In the case of marijuana, Amendment Sixty-Four sets the par- ameters of the policy: a legalized, regulated system for... Scholarlycommons.law.case.edu

The Federalist Safeguards of Politics » ment; increasing voter participation, turnout in particular; respecting the political equality of all citizens; and ensuring that ...general and the relationship of judicial review to that task in par- ticular. The Guarantee Clause is not ......(Nov. 7, 2014), http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgov/posts/2014/11/07-spending-per-voter-. Scholarship.law.umt.edu

Russell Wheeler » Russell Wheeler is a visiting fellow in the Brookings Institution's Governance Studies Program and president of the Governance Institute, a small, non-partisan think tank ...From 1977 until 2005, he was with the Federal Judicial Center, the federal courts' research and education agency, serving as deputy director since 1991. Brookings.edu

Beware The Teflon Don – Presidential Power » Jul 14, 2017 ...Indeed, after prodding by Senator Lindsay Graham, Christopher Wray, Trump's nominee to head the FBI, told the members of the Judiciary Committee that, ... That statement from Trump's own nominee seemed to undercut the President's defense that this meeting was par for the course when it comes to... Sites.middlebury.edu