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Likely Next Solicitor General Fought for Nuns, Against Disputed Obama Appointees
"If you asked any conservative attorney in this town, they would put Noel in the top five legal minds,” said Curt Levey, president of t
The Daily Signal
Sep 18, 2017
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
The Huffington Post
Sep 11, 2017
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
Op-ed published in The Hill
Aug 10, 2017
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...
The Washington Times
Jun 21, 2017
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...
The Washington Times
Jun 15, 2017
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...
John Lott
Nov 21, 2013
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...
John Lott
Oct 19, 2013
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...
John Lott
Oct 19, 2013
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...
John Lott
Oct 15, 2013
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