Carrie Severino explains for the Washington Examiner a proposal that could speed the process of confirming federal judicial nominees. By insisting on going through the cloture process for nearly every…
Susan Crabtree of the Washington Free Beacon documents a new campaign to urge action from the U.S. Senate majority leader. Conservative senators and outside groups are asking Senate Majority Leader…
Susan Crabtree of the Washington Free Beacon reports that the U.S. Senate might step up its activity level when it comes to President Trump’s nominees. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, responding…
John Fund‘s latest National Review Online column compares the Trump administration to a famous on-screen comedy. President Trump moved this month to beef up his White House staff, adding former…
Christopher Bedford of the Daily Caller suggests ways Republicans in the U.S. Senate could address Democrats’ obstructionist tactics. … [E]very week, the Democrats are allowed to work just 2.5 days…
James Antle documents for the Washington Examiner the Democratic Party’s all-out effort to block President Trump’s actions. Senate Democrats are dispensing with talk of cooperation and preparing to fight President…
David Harsanyi explains in a Federalist column why the prospect of gridlock — a feature, not a bug, within the American constitutional system — offers some hope that the next…
Yes I noticed the quote from Sen. Thom Tillis in today’s New York Times regarding President Obama’s Supreme Court nomination to replace Judge Antonin Scalia: Tillis, Republican of North Carolina, told a…
Remember when President Obama justified U.S. Senate Democrats’ controversial step of ending filibusters for presidential appointments by saying “over the past five years, we’ve seen an unprecedented pattern of obstruction…
Ron Fournier‘s latest column at National Journal contends “the modern GOP is an obstructionist, rudderless party often held hostage by extremists.” That doesn’t stop Fournier from questioning the 44th president’s…
It seems the recent discovery of Richard III’s bones under a parking lot has inspired more than one scribe. National Review editor Rich Lowry invokes one of Shakespeare’s greatest villains…
… that take note of President Obama’s willingness to ignore the constitutional limits established for his office. The graphic at right is associated with a Newsweek article titled “The President…