The Judicial Nominations Blog Gavels in for Business
With the start of the new session of Congress tomorrow, the political landscape in Washington, D.C. is going to change dramatically. The unified Republican control of federal government will come to an end, and control of the House of Representatives will officially change hands to the Democratic party, leading to even more gridlock in the halls of the Capitol Building (if that's even possible!). Any legislation that the GOP might have hoped to pass on their own accord is dead at this point, and that means that the Senate's attention will be far more focused on, as some senators are known to put it, the "personnel business". That's where this blog jumps in. The 115th Congress saw the confirmations of 2 Supreme Court Justices, 30 U.S. Circuit Judges, and 53 U.S. District Judges . The expanded Senate GOP is not going to slow down in this avenue anytime soon, especially because they don't have much more to do, aside from executive branch nominees. The Judic...