Judicial-Confirmation Wars

How and why has the judicial-confirmation process changed over the past three decades? What further changes can we expect? What’s it like to be a nominee stuck in the process? What should the process look like?

Ed Whelan of the Ethics and Public Policy Center has been deeply immersed in every Supreme Court confirmation process, and lots of contested lower-court nominations, ever since he handled the nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a Senate Judiciary Committee lawyer in 1993. Jeremy Rosen’s nomination in 2018 to be a federal judge in the Central District of California died in limbo. Mr. Whelan will offer the long view on the judicial-confirmation wars, and Mr. Rosen will discuss his own experience.

Member: $15

Non Member: $30

Lunch is provided.

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