Legal News

GOP Has New Counsel for Judicial, DOJ Nominations
Blog of the Legal Times: "It's a promotion for Danielle Cutrona, who will have the title of chief counsel for nominations on the committee's GOP staff."

"Judicial Nominations Coming Soon"
"Judicial Nominations Coming Soon": Today at the "Legal Beat" blog of CQ Politics, Seth Stern has a post that begins, "The Senate Judiciary Committee's chairman expects President Obama's first batch of judicial nominations to arrive by early April...

Judicial Nominees By the Numbers:
A reader who follows judicial nominations quite closely sends along the follwing comment on my recent judicial nominations post:...

McCain & Judicial Nominations:
Most discussion and debate over Sen. John McCain's record on judicial nominations has focused on his role in the "Gang of 14." See, for example, this defense of his record...

O'Connor to Advise McCain on Judicial Nominations
Republican Presidential candidate John McCain yesterday released the names of his Judicial Advisory Committee, which will advise him on judicial nominations. Among the lawyers and law professors on the list is Eileen J...

"Judicial Nominations Process Debated Again; GOP Senators Criticize Democrats For Stalling on Bush Bench Nominations"
"Judicial Nominations Process Debated Again; GOP Senators Criticize Democrats For Stalling on Bush Bench Nominations": Lawrence Hurley will have this front page article Monday in The Daily Journal of California.