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President-elect Donald Trump's chief of staff Susie Wiles sent a message Sunday ordering nominees to refrain from any posting on social media as Senate confirmation hearings are scheduled to start ...
Kash Patel, Pete Hegseth continue meetings with lawmakers ahead of confirmation hearings. December 11, 2024 at 3:55 PM. Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be the director of the ...
But Democrats are still expected to intensely question a number of Trump picks at their confirmation hearings, and senators could use certain procedural measures to slow down the process ...
President Biden is set to deliver remarks Thursday afternoon on securing a record 235 judicial confirmations over the last four years. The achievement came after the Senate ran into significant ...
Hegseth's nomination hearings are set to start on Jan. 14. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Trump's picks warned on social media posts during confirmation fights Show comments
From 1975 until 2017, the threshold needed to invoke cloture for Supreme Court confirmation was three-fifths of all senators duly chosen and sworn-in (60 senators, if there was no more than one seat left vacant). [2] On April 7, 2017, the votes of Democratic senators managed to deny enough support for cloture on the nomination of Neil Gorsuch.
[29] [34] The committee did not hold hearings on another Supreme Court nominee until February 1916, when intense opposition arose against the nomination of Louis Brandeis to become an associate justice. There were 19 days of public hearings altogether; the Senate ultimately voted to confirm Brandeis in June 1916. [35] [36]
The 119th Congress is around the corner and confirmation battles featuring President-elect Trump’s slate of nominees are set to take center stage. Since Trump’s rapid rollout of choices, two ...