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Topic: Judicial Appointments

US Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Dems face "road blocks" on judges

Russell Payne
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) (AP/Alex Brandon)

Senate confirms anti-LGBTQ judge

Igor Derysh
(Getty/Salon)

Mitch, gravedigger of democracy

Heather Digby Parton
Donald Trump; Mitch McConnell (Getty/Nicholas Kamm)

Trump and McConnell have a plan

Amanda Marcotte
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Mitch McConnell (AP/Salon)

Willl Mitch embrace the nuclear option?

Igor Derysh
David Porter; Donald Trump (bipc.com/Getty/Photo montage by Salon)

Another wacky Trump judicial nominee

Amanda Marcotte
(AP/Salon)

Trump's latest judge wants to gut EPA

Amanda Marcotte
(Getty/Nicholas Kamm/Alex Wong/Salon)

GOP's court-packing spree just starting

Paul Rosenberg
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(Getty/Kiyoshi Ota)

Trump's judicial picks: Bad to worse

Amanda Marcotte
Chuck Grassley; Donald Trump (AP/Jacquelyn Martin/Getty/Olivier Douliery/Salon)

Trump’s judge picks: "Not qualified"

Matthew Rozsa
Mitch McConnell (Getty/Drew Angerer)

McConnell fast-tracks Trump's judges

Amanda Marcotte
Antonin Scalila (AP)

Give Scalia some credit

Michael Garofalo
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Marco Rubio (AP)

GOP Abandons Constitution

Cody Cain
Barack Obama announces the nominations of Robert Wilkins, Cornelia Pillard, and Patricia Ann Millet, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, June 4, 2013. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Alex Seitz-Wald
Ted Cruz, Charles Grassley (AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Reuters/Joshua Roberts)

Alex Seitz-Wald
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Jillian Rayfield
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