Reforming the Supreme Court Confirmation Process

This article by Richard Pildes is published by election law blog. Here is an excerpt:

With the impending nomination and confirmation process for a new Justice, I want to call attention to one of the most detailed, practical set of recommendations for improving the confirmation process.

As part of the testimony submitted to President Biden’s Supreme Court Commission, on which I served, we received an analysis on improving the confirmation process from Jeffrey J. Peck, who previously served as General Counsel and the Majority Staff Director of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The proposed changes grew out of his examination of the history of the Senate’s treatment of Supreme Court nominees over the last several
decades and numerous interviews he conducted with former Senators and senior staff—
thirteen Democrats and twelve Republicans. That group included individuals who had been
involved in seventeen Supreme Court nominations, from 1981 to the present.

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