Regardless of what happens (with impeachment), President Trump's legacy will be with us for decades. That will be something everyone needs to be paying attention to.

Christopher Kang

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While Chuck Grassley has moved forward several circuit court nominees without their home state senator's blue slips, doing so to the ranking member of the committee would be a dramatic escalation and slap in the face.

Christopher Kang

The timing of these nominations is curious given the potential churn in the Senate and the Judiciary Committee in particular.

Christopher Kang

I think that is really striking. We would not have used clerks to talk about a judge's political philosophy.

Christopher Kang

This raises concerns about asking law enforcement officials to participate in a political process, but it also underscores just how many documents must be processed and released before a hearing can be scheduled.

Christopher Kang

Those few examples show that when Democratic home state senators are consulted in good faith, they are not looking for progressive judges, they understand that President Trump is going to appoint conservative judges but they are willing to work in good faith to find consensus nominees.

Christopher Kang

Our democracy is under assault by this Supreme Court, so we cannot evaluate reform proposals under a rubric of whether or not they will preserve this court… We need to expand the Supreme Court.

Christopher Kang