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Right Calls to "Take Off the Gloves" Against Non-Existent SCOTUS Nominee 05/14/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Ben Smith reports that right-wing groups met with several Republican Senators yesterday to plot strategy on how to defeat President Obama's Supreme Court …

SCOTUS Round-Up: A Gay Nominee? 05/08/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Jan Crawford Greenburg reports : The White House has formalized its short list of Supreme Court contenders and asked six prospects to provide personal background information, with an intensive …

SCOTUS Round-Up 05/04/2009 by Kyle Mantyla I’m going to start posting quick round-ups of what the Right is saying about the upcoming Supreme Court vacancy here on a regular basis – possibly daily, depending on what is available.   Politico reports that …

SCOTUS: Daly Returns As The Right Plots Strategy 05/01/2009 by Kyle Mantyla I've been wondering why the Right's public response to the news that David Souter will be retiring has been almost non-existent.  The news broke last night and yet very few …

Fox News' Bream Has Ties To Jerry Falwell 03/19/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Just yesterday we noted that the Right's primary talking point in opposing President Bush's first judicial nominee, David Hamilton, is that he has ties to ACORN. Of course, as we pointed …

Right Wing Leftovers 03/17/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Politico reports that Republicans are encouraging Norm Coleman to be "as litigious as possible and take his fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if he loses this round, believing that an elongated …

Everyone Called It The "Nuclear Option" Because That Was Its Name 03/09/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times ran an article on the Senate Republicans' threat to filibuster President Obama’s judicial nominees if they are not “consulted on, …

Specter Tests Obama's Bipartisanship 01/30/2009 by Kyle Mantyla A few weeks ago I made a short mention of the fact that various right-wing judicial activists were calling on Barack Obama to re-nominate a few of President Bush's judicial nominees who never …

Saving Their Ammunition for Judicial Fights? 01/28/2009 by Kyle Mantyla NPR ran a piece earlier this week about how Sen. John Cornyn has quickly established himself as “a thorn in the [Obama] administration's side." It explains that Cornyn's efforts may …

Will the Judicial Confirmation Network Stick to its Pledge? 01/21/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Shortly after the election, we noted that the Judicial Confirmation Network, which had been founded with the express purpose of helping to get President Bush’s judicial …