The confirmation processes for Justices Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Kagan and Sotomayor lasted between 65 and 89 days from nomination to vote. The shortest confirmation process in recent memory was that for ...

One of the Senate’s most important responsibilities is to provide “advice and consent” for the president’s nominations. America’s Founders saw this as a “silent operation,” with the possibility of ...

Senate Republicans have voted to change the rules to make it easier to confirm President Trump's nominees, allowing the chamber to confirm certain nominees in groups rather than by individual vote.

Senate Republicans have altered chamber rules with a simple majority vote to expedite the confirmation process for President Donald Trump’s executive nominees, a move Democrats claim undermines ...

Thomas Jipping is a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. The Constitution gives the president the power to nominate and, with ...

The campaign to expedite the confirmation process for President Donald Trump’s nominees by changing Senate rules gained momentum Tuesday after Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso endorsed the move.

The Senate confirmed Emil Bove as a federal appeals court judge on Tuesday, July 29, with a narrow vote of 50-49, mostly along party lines. Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins ...

Thomas Jipping is a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. One of the Senate’s most important responsibilities is to provide ...