As this BLT post details, the Senate Judiciary Committee today, by a straight party-line vote of 10-8, favorably reported to the full Senate President Obama’s nomination of Georgetown law professor Cornelia Pillard to a D.C. Circuit vacancy. (My case against the Pillard nomination can be found in various links in this post; see also NRO’s editorial today against the nomination.)
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Ed Whelan holds the Antonin Scalia Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and is a regular contributor to National Review’s Bench Memos blog.
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