Religion & Law

ONCE THEY WERE REGARDED AS NEUTRAL PROFESSIONALS: ABA Picks Sides on Judicial Nominations.
ONCE THEY WERE REGARDED AS NEUTRAL PROFESSIONALS: ABA Picks Sides on Judicial Nominations.

Obama Resubmits 42 Judicial Picks
President Obama, facing a slimmer Democratic majority in the Senate, has resubmitted 42 judicial nominations — including those of four controversial appointees whom Republicans opposed...

GOP Has New Counsel for Judicial, DOJ Nominations
Republicans have a new lawyer to handle nominations that come before the Senate Judiciary Committee, including the president's picks for the federal bench and the U.S. Department of Justice...

Study Finds Obama's Judge Picks More Diverse Than Bush's
He hasn?t made a ton of picks so far, but it looks like President Obama?s early judicial nominations have a theme: diversity. A new report from the Brookings Institution found that just 30% of Obama?s 56 nominees from his first...

"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...

Another justified complaint about the pace of Obama judicial nominations
At Slate, Doug Kendall has this new commentary, headlined "Fill the Bench Now: Now is the time for Obama to move on judicial nominations," which take President Obama to task for the slow pace of his judicial nominations...