Now available online, from the forthcoming issue of the Weekly Standard, is my article titled “The Senate and the Courts: The federal judiciary will follow the election returns.” (I didn’t come up with the title, but I like it.) Here’s my opening:

With little fanfare, President Obama has enjoyed remarkable success in his project to remake the federal courts in his own ideological image. How much more he achieves during his final two years in office depends in large part on whether Republicans win control of the Senate this November.