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Probing Nominees’ Positions on Constitutional Rights, Church-State Separation Is Not Religious Perse
Religious Right organizations and conservative media outlets have been slamming Democratic senators over their questioning of Notre Dame Law
Ashley Baker
May 18, 2022


Grassley shouldn't allow Senate Democrats to block judicial nominees
With judicial confirmation battles heating up and Republicans in control of both the White House and the Senate, Democrats are grasping for
Ashley Baker
May 18, 2022


Federalist Society becomes progressives’ new bogeyman
President Trump hadn’t even had a chance to officially release his new list of judicial nominees this month before a progressive advocacy...
Ashley Baker
May 18, 2022


Minority judicial nominations by Trump would pose political dilemmas for Democrats
Fights over minority judges are nothing new. When President George W. Bush nominated Miguel Estrada, a highly touted Hispanic lawyer with...
Ashley Baker
May 18, 2022
New York Post piece on the "nuclear option" push in the Senate
My newest piece at the New York Post starts this way: President Obama’s timing could have been better. Only two weeks ago in Texas, at a...
Ashley Baker
May 18, 2022
Appearance on C-SPAN to talk about "Dumbing Down the Courts," applying economics to unders
The video that runs about an hour is available here. The C-SPAN intro is not completely accurate so you might want to skip the first 30...
Ashley Baker
May 18, 2022
New piece at Politico: The dumbing down of America's judges
My piece at Politico starts this way: Think that attending a top university and graduating at the top of the class is the key to your...
Ashley Baker
May 18, 2022
Fox News piece: Obama, other Democrats all wrong about Republican obstruction of judicial nominees
My newest piece at Fox News starts this way: The Senate Judiciary committee will vote on either Wednesday or Thursday whether to confirm...
Ashley Baker
May 18, 2022
Obama's Pick: High Risk, Low Reward
The announcement that Justice Souter will be stepping down at the end of the term, while not a total shock, certainly focuses the attention
Ashley Baker
May 18, 2022
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