President-elect Donald Trump’s demand that the Senate go into recess to allow his top appointees to take office without a confirmation vote would be a complete abdication of the chamber’s ...

"This was a trial by ordeal. She went through 24 hours of questioning," says Sen. Dick Durbin, chair of the Judiciary Committee. "I’m not sure that is really fair to any nominee." (Bloomberg) — ...

On July 13, Mike Brown, director of the Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), announced he was withdrawing his name from Senate consideration for the post of Under Secretary for ...

The deep partisan divide over Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s bitter confirmation hearing remains, even months later. A toxic cloud hangs over the Senate Judiciary Committee, and once-routine processes ...

The news has been full of stories on SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett. It can be hard to know who to trust on this highly polarized issue. That’s why The Heritage Foundation is going straight to the ...

The decision by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire will ignite a much-watched confirmation process in which President Joe Biden will attempt to place another liberal on the high court.

Key Senate Republicans keep signaling their approach to the upcoming Supreme Court confirmation process will be one of “respect” rather than obstruction, to contrast with how they felt Democrats ...

Monday marks the 300th day of Joe Biden’s presidency, a pivotal time by which the “transition” is supposed to be in the rearview mirror and an administration can move forward with a full team – or at ...