Steven G. Calabresi is a professor of law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and a co-founder of the Federalist Society. A prominent conservative legal scholar specializing in constitutional law, he contributed pieces to The Weekly Standard on judicial nominations and Senate confirmation politics.
SENATOR CHARLES SCHUMER of New York has led the charge for Senate Democrats over the last several days in demanding the release of thousands of pages of highly confidential internal executive branch memos written by Supreme Court nominee John Roberts when he worked as a deputy solicitor general in…
THE LEGAL LEFT IS DANGEROUSLY close to winning the political war it has been fighting against the Bush administration over the future direction of the federal courts. The evidence of this is that whenever rumors are floated of possible Bush Supreme Court nominees, there are some very prominent…