Trump seems to have his eyes on the future with these nominees, said Curt Levey, president of the Committee for Justice and a constitutional lawyer with FreedomWorks, a conservative advocacy group. “It’s clear that the administration is looking at young nominees,” Levey told The Daily Signal. “Being an appeals court judge, if not on the short list, it puts you on the long list for the Supreme Court. … This administration seems to be making a bigger factor of age than previo

Still, Committee for Justice President Curt Levey said Senate Democrats are likely to slow the confirmation process by exploiting debate time at a record level. He said Democrats also could try to defeat nominees “by abusing the blue-slip privileges granted to the two senators from each nominee’s home state.” “If Democrats go that extreme, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley [Iowa Republican] may be forced to curtail the 100-year-old blue-slip tradition,” he said. The

Still, Committee for Justice President Curt Levey said Senate Democrats are likely to slow the confirmation process by “exploiting” debate time at “a record level.” He said Democrats also could try to defeat nominees “by abusing the ‘blue slip’ privileges granted to the two senators from each nominee’s home state.” “If Democrats go that extreme, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley [Iowa Republican] may be forced to curtail the 100-year-old blue slip tradition,” he said.

With another Supreme Court vacancy looming, perhaps as early as this summer, the likely players in the next confirmation fight would be wise

Conservative groups said Mr. McConnell handled the fight well throughout. “If you combine what he did on Garland with his support of the ‘nuclear option,’ and his disinterest in finding some compromise to avoid the ‘nuclear option,’ his standing now with conservatives is very high,” said Curt Levey, president of the Committee for Justice. Read more.

Curt Levey, president at the Committee for Justice, said he would like to see the court consider the Second Amendment issue now that Justice Gorsuch fills out the court at nine justices. “He’s probably on the conservative side of the Second Amendment cases,” Mr. Levey said. Read more in The Washington Times.

While the enforcement of the revised executive order remains blocked, the juxtaposition of the recent court rulings shows there could be hope yet for the administration’s policy, which has thus far been mostly losing what is expected to be long and drawn out legal fight. “It’s certainly a moral and political victory,” said Curt Levey, a constitutional law attorney with FreedomWorks and the Committee for Justice. The magnitude of the case, which raises constitutional questio

By the end of the third day of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, it was clear that little fight was left in the

Given his position on the Trump campaign’s Supreme Court list of 21 names, this could be grooming Thapar for the Supreme Court, said Curt Levey, president of the Committee for Justice, a conservative legal group, and a senior legal fellow for FreedomWorks. “Everyone on that list was ranked somewhere from good to great as far as being a constitutionalist,” Levey told The Daily Signal. “Certainly if he is qualified to be on the Supreme Court, he is qualified to be on an appeal