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The confirmation of President Obama's judicial nominees has been delayed. Judy Woodruff discusses the politics of confirming the nominees to the federal bench with Committee for Justice's Curt Levey and the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy's Caroline Fredrickson.

In Levey’s view, one substantive explanation for the administration’s relative lack of aggressiveness in pursuing the courts card was its wi

Curt Levey, executive director of the conservative lobby Committee for Justice, said neither Obama nor Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has made a priority of filling judicial vacancies. "Republicans can't stop Reid from bringing things to a vote, but what they can do is make the majority leader pick his priorities," Levey said. He was referring to the option of invoking cloture, which allows the majority to call a vote but at the price of ceding the Senate floor f

One of the best discussions of this issue I've ever seen appears in Townhall Magazine (August 2008), authored by Curt Levey, executive d

Judicial activism is not the failure to follow precedent. Courts must generally adhere to their past decisions and those of higher courts. B