Constitutional Law

FEC Nominees Voted Out of Committee
The following press release has arrived via email: Senate Rules and Administration Committee Approves Nominees to Federal Election Commission - Urges Full Senate to Swiftly Confirm Nominees - Washington, DC -- The Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, chaired by...

Sen. Orring Hatch: Senate Democrats are failing to meet historical and their own standards.
In the last ten months, for example, the Judiciary Committee has held a hearing on just three appeals-court nominees. During the same period under President Clinton, the Judiciary Committee held a hearing on 11 nominees.

Showdown over Fourth Circuit Nominees
From the Baltimore Sun:Storm clouds continue to gather in the Senate over federal judges. Republicans, eager to fill some key appeals court vacancies with conservatives before the end of President Bush's term are stepping up the pressure on Patrick Leahy, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee...

U.S. Senate committee OKs 3 Michigan judicial nominees
The Grand Rapids Press reports: The Senate Judiciary Committee cleared three Michigan judicial nominees on Thursday, advancing a Clinton era appointment whose nomination stalled for years during the late 1990s...

Senate Judiciary Committee OKs Seven Nominees
In a related matter, the committee also agreed to send the nominations of four district judges and a U.S. marshal to the Senate floor . . .

"Senate Panel Approves Judgeships Bill"
"Senate Panel Approves Judgeships Bill": At his "Washington Briefs" blog, Lawrence Hurley of The Daily Journal of California has a post that begins, "This morning the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 14-5 to approve a bill that would create dozens of new federal judgeships for the first time since 1990...

Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007
Strengthens examination requirements of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States