In interviews this week, Senate Democrats suggested that they would also like to see a broad bipartisan vote. While they stressed that winning over Republicans shouldn’t be the deciding factor for Biden, they argued that it would send a signal to the public that the high court isn’t as politicized as many perceive it to … Read more
Murkowski is widely viewed as one of the most likely Republican senators to support Biden’s pick. She has backed 79 percent of Biden’s judicial nominees this Congress and voted last year to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Jackson is viewed as a frontrunner for the Supreme Court seat. … Read more
The tensions, likely to surface at Cook’s Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday, underscore the political dangers facing the Fed, led by Republican Chairman Jerome Powell, which is struggling to play its part in heated debates over racial injustice and climate change define. Neither issue falls specifically within its mandate, but both have become major public … Read more
It’s Supreme Court nomination season again. Last week, Justice Stephen Breyer announced he would be retiring from the court at the end of the term, and President Biden has announced he will nominate his nominee until the end of the term End of February. True to a campaign promiseIt is widely expected that Biden will … Read more
It’s another episode of Confidence Interval where we share a hot shot we’ve heard… and then show how confident we really are in the idea. This time, senior author Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux reviews the tweets claiming President Joe Biden could nominate Vice President Kamala Harris for the Supreme Court.