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‘Thomas Hardiman Survives Democratic Takeover of Senate’

That’s the title of my new Confirmation Tales post, which begins:

The judicial-confirmation process is full of surprises. Just as you would have thought that Fifth Circuit nominee Leslie Southwick would surely have an easy path to confirmation in 2007, so you might have wondered how Third Circuit nominee Thomas Hardiman would ever get confirmed.

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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