Topic: judicial nominations

Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general, is sworn in during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled Protecting a Precious, Almost Sacred Right: The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, in Dirksen Building on Wednesday, October 6, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Biden's nominees are OK — if white

Igor Derysh
Mitch McConnell (Getty/Saul Loeb)

GOP tears down the system for Trump

Matthew Sheffield
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

White House uses WSJ to boost Trump

Charlie May
Neil Gorsuch (AP/Susan Walsh)

The SCOTUS nomination charade

Gary Legum
Mitch McConnell (Reuters/Gary Cameron)

McConnell's Trump problem

Simon Maloy
Gonzalo Curiel, Donald Trump (Wikimedia/AP/Chris Carlson/Photo montage by Salon)

Trump the strongman

Simon Maloy
FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2015, file photo, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Charles Grassley speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. With Monday’s vote for the federal judge from Philadelphia, the Senate will have cleared its to-do list of nominees to the powerful appeals courts. Nine vacancies will remain, but President Barack Obama has yet to nominate individuals for those posts. "We’re moving at a reasonable pace," said Grassley, in a scrap with Sen. Chuck Schumer last year. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) (AP)

SCOTUS opposition cracking up

Sophia Tesfaye
FILE - In this June 9, 2014 file photo, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk R-Ill., speaks in his office in Chicago. Kirk is making national security a prime focus of his bid for a second term. It’s a strategy that has historically worked well for the GOP, particularly at times when voters are on edge about the country’s safety, as many are now. He faces Democratic U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth in the November election. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File) (AP)

GOP SCOTUS obstruction cracks

Sophia Tesfaye
Merrick Garland walks out with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden as he is introduced as Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, March 16, 2016. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Obama's SCOTUS pick

Simon Maloy
In this Feb. 10, 2016, photo, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Grassley has a major say on whether President Barack Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court even gets a hearing. In the past week, Grassley, who is seeking a seventh term, has delivered a muddled message about the fate of any pick. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

Chuck Grassley wants it all

Simon Maloy
In this Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016 photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., center, smiles and speaks to reporters as he is joined by, from right to left, Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., following a closed-door policy meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. Before President Barack Obama has chosen a nominee, nearly all the Senate’s majority Republicans seem dug in against even meeting that person. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

GOP try SCOTUS scare tactics

Sophia Tesfaye
(CBS News)

Obama knocks GOP obstruction

Sophia Tesfaye
Mitch McConnell (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

The price of obstruction

Simon Maloy
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 24: Michelle Alexander speaks onstage at "An Evening With John Legend" hosted by POLITICO to kick-off White House Correspondents' weekend at Longview Gallery on April 24, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brad Barket/Getty Images) (Brad Barket)

Michelle Alexander for SCOTUS

Sophia Tesfaye
Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell (Reuters/Chris Keane/Jonathan Ernst/Photo montage by Salon)

GOP won't cave on SCOTUS pick

Simon Maloy
(Reuters)

Obama ready for SCOTUS fight

Sophia Tesfaye
(Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

Warren vs. corporate judges

Elias Isquith