Opinion

The Constitution grants the responsibility of nominating federal judges to the president. The process concludes with the “advice and consent” of the Senate. Over 600 judges currently sit on U.S. district courts, nearly 200 at the appellate level, and nine who make up the Supreme Court. Both Republican and Democratic presidents have generally enjoyed wide…

This is a lightly edited transcript of an interview on the July 10 episode of The Daily Signal podcast. Katrina Trinko: Joining us today is Elizabeth Slattery, a legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation and the host of “SCOTUS 101,” her terrific podcast on Supreme Court matters. Elizabeth, what did you think about President Trump’s decision to pick Brett…

Predictably, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick has been met with mostly hysteria on the left. Even before Trump picked D.C. Circuit Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, left-wing publications were floating absurd court-packing plans to counter him. Stacking the Supreme Court with more unelected judges, they…

The Heritage Foundation’s Elizabeth Slattery joins us to explain why, contra some protests from the right (and a lot of fear mongering from the left), Brett Kavanaugh will make an excellent Supreme Court justice. Plus: Heritage’s Lyndsey Fifield, who was at the Supreme Court during the protests the night of Kavanaugh’s appointment, describes what it…