Re: Merrick Garland, it’s a bit late for the Obama administration and its supporters to appeal to constitutional norms requiring Senate consideration

As co-blogger Jonathan H. Adler has pointed out, the Senate’s power to advise and consent on judicial nominees does not give the Senate any obligation to exercise that power in any given way. The constitutional text, therefore, does not require the Senate to either hold hearings on Merrick Garland, nor to have a vote on […]