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- New York Times: Republican Effort to Unpack the Court
- Salon: The GOP plot to rig the court
- Mitch McConnell: Senate GOP Has Treated Obama's Judicial Nominees 'Very Fairly'
- Obama Judicial Vacancies Continue To Rise In Second Term, Face Issues
- Legal Times Blog: N.J. Senator's Counsel Joins Alliance For Justice
- Center for Public Integrity: Corporations, pro-business nonprofits foot bill for judicial seminars
- Salon: The right wing’s Supreme Court whisperer
- Reuters: Analysis: Obama's climate agenda may face setbacks in federal court
- USA Today: Obama judicial nominee, opposed by GOP, withdraws
- L.A. Times: Obama court pick withdraws, thwarted by Republicans in Senate
- Washington Post: White House withdraws Caitlin Halligan nomination
- Dayton Daily News: Xenia native withdraws nomination for prestigious judge appointment
- Jost on Justice: Gun Lobby Setting Its Sights on Judicial Nominees
- The Nonprofit Times: AG Might Hamper Advocacy Work
- The Maddow Blog: Judicial nominee confirmed after 484 days
- The Hill: Voting rights: Americans died for it, the free world admires it, the Supreme Court should preserve it
- Legal Times: GOP Senators Again Block Halligan Nomination to D.C. Circuit
- The Daily Beast: Capitol Hill Showdown Over Obama’s Judicial Nominees Comes to a Head
- Legal Times: Senate Democrats Again to Push for Vote on D.C. Circuit Nominee Halligan
- Washington Post: Obama pushing to diversify federal judiciary amid GOP delays
- Dynamic Chiropractic: Advocacy and National Public Health Week: What You Can Do
- Mother Jones: This Supreme Court Case Could Give Corporations Even More Power To Screw Consumers
- MSNBC: Failure of filibuster reform puts Hagel confirmation at risk
- KPFA Radio: Nan Aron on judicial nominations
- Legal Times: Report Shows Judicial Vacancies Stretching Into the Thousands of Days
- San Francisco Chronicle: Obama nominations heavy on ex-prosecutors
- The Hill: Scalia’s dead Constitution
- Constitution Daily: Constitution Check: What are the limits on the president’s appointment powers?
- Washington Times: ‘Nuclear option’ averted as Senate leaders reach agreement on filibuster rules
- Nonprofit Quarterly: With Lessons for U.S., U.K. Report Eyes Nonprofit Sector Autonomy
- Nan Aron in Huffington Post: Ending Congressional Gridlock Requires Curbing Abuse of the Filibuster
- Chronicle of Philanthropy: The Best Way to Stop a Bad Gun Lobbyist Is With a Good Gun Lobbyist
- The American Prospect: The President's Running Room—and Ours
- Nonprofit Quarterly: Karen Handel Still Gunning for Planned Parenthood
- The Nation: Obama's Federal Judiciary Failures
- Corporate Counsel: A Nonprofit is a Nonprofit, But Not All Nonprofits Are Alike
- The American Prospect: The Courts: How Obama Dropped the Ball>
- New York Times: Judges Needed for Federal Courts
- Huffington Post: Social Justice Needs Funding
- USA Today: Gay rights proponents, opponents herald court action
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Supreme Court will hear challenge to Defense of Marriage Act
- Philadelphia Inquirer: At least agree on judges
- The American Prospect: Reclaim the Courts
- Portland Press Herald: Fight looms in Senate over reform of filibuster
- Roll Call: Progressive Groups Branch Out To Tackle Filibuster, Big Money, Voting
- USA Today: Judicial nominations for recent presidents
- USA Today: Obama determined to fill federal judgeships
- The Legal Intelligencer: Obama taps three for district judgeships, but vacancies persist
- TPM: Exclusive: Major Unions And Progressive Groups Create Filibuster Reform Coalition
- Nan Aron in Huffington Post: Is Samuel Alito a Tenther?
- The Daily Star (Hammond, LA): Justice for all
- Toledo Blade: Out of order
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Fair or Foul: Shining the light; put the judges to work
- L.A. Times: Supreme Court justices as after-dinner speakers
- Associated Press: SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Justice Alito takes on critics of major campaign finance ruling
- Huffington Post: It's Time for the Senate to Avoid the Judicial Cliff, Too
- CNN: Federal courts in a second Obama term: political peril and opportunity
- Huffington Post: Study About Nonprofit Advocacy Spoiled by Outrageous, Self-Serving Recommendations
- Legal Times Blog: Why the Supreme Court, Other Legal Topics Might be Raised at VP Debate
- Arizona Central: Napolitano on Supreme Court? Really?
- CQ Researcher on SCOTUS (pdf)
- Media Matters: John Roberts Is Still A Pro-Corporate Conservative, And The Media Shouldn't Be Fooled
- Nan Aron in Huffington Post: To See the 1 Percent in Action, Skip the Video and Visit the Supreme Court
- San Jose Mercury News: President Barack Obama has heavily influenced federal courts in Bay Area
- Nan Aron in The Nation: The Way Forward
- Chronicle of Philanthropy: Nonprofits Shouldn't Mistake Nonpartisansip With Neutrality in the 2012 Elections
- Politico: W.H. plans for a second term
- McClatchy Newspapers: Federal court vacancies will likely wait on the election
- Legal Times Blog: Group Using Facebook to Raise Awareness About Judicial Nominees
- Sacramento Observer: Obamas Mixed Record on Appointing Judges
- New York Times: Obama Lags on Judicial Picks, Limiting His Mark on Courts
- Legal Times: Group Using Facebook to Raise Awareness About Judicial Nominees
- Washington Post: The Morning Plum: What the battle over Obamacare really comes down to
- Nan Aron in Huffington Post: The Supreme Court: Just Politics by Other Means?
- The Daily Beast: Democrats, Republicans Mobilize for Adverse Supreme Court Ruling on Obamacare
- Washington Post: Mitch McConnell's choice: Justice delayed, and delayed, and delayed
- Reuters: Despite odds, Obama nominates two for key U.S. appeals court
- Nan Aron in Huffington Post: Hey, Liberals, Stop Being So Mean to John Roberts!
- iWatch News: After 'Citizens United,' is constitutional amendment needed?
- The Hill: Judicial nominees continue to languish in the Senate
- CQ: If Judicial Confirmations Slow This Election Year, Its the Leahy Rule
- Congressional Quarterly: Appellate Judge Approval Lifts Democratic Hopes
- Fox News: Obama or the GOP: Whose Fault for Court Vacancies?
- MSNBC: Marriage issue adds to Supreme Court election stakes
- Up with Chris Hayes: You Should Know: AFJ Report on the State of the Judiciary
- The Rachel Maddow Show: Republicans create judicial crisis with partisan obstruction
- The Atlantic: Latest Nullification News, of the Judiciary
- Wisconsin State Journal: Ins and outs of church and politics
- The Nation: Why the Supreme Court Matters




