1See The Federalist Society online:
http://www.fed-soc.org.
2U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Legal Policy, "The Constitution in the Year 2000: Choices Ahead in Constitutional Interpretation" (1988).
3Dawn Johnsen, "Tipping the Scale," The Washington Monthly, July/August 2002.
4Deborah Sontag, "The Power of the Fourth," The New York Times Magazine, March 9, 2003.
5National Women's Law Center, "A Response to Current Attacks on Filibusters of Judicial Nominations," (2003) (quoting Neil A. Lewis, "At the Bar," The New York Times, December 9, 1994).
6Letter from Senator Joseph Biden to President George H.W. Bush (June 6, 1989).
7Letter from Senator Orrin Hatch to White House Counsel Charles C.F. Ruff (April 16, 1997).
8Brannon P. Denning, "The Blue Slip: Enforcing the Norms of the Judicial Confirmation Process," >William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal (2001).
9Deborah Sontag, "The Power of the Fourth," The New York Times Magazine, March 9, 2003.
10President Clinton nominated Judge James Wynn and Judge James Beatty of North Carolina, Judge Andre Davis of Maryland, and Roger Gregory of Virginia. Judge Gregory was later recess appointed by President Clinton, renominated by President Bush, and confirmed by the Senate.
11Deborah Sontag, "The Power of the Fourth," The New York Times Magazine, March 9, 2003.
12Id.
13Congressional Record, S2455, regarding S. 570, 106th Cong. 1st Sess. (1999).
14Statement of Senator Carl Levin, Judicial Nominations Hearing Before the Senate Judiciary Committee, 108th Cong., 1st Sess., July 30, 2003.
15Id.
16See, Id.
17The Columbus Post, March 19, 2003.
18International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Brock , 477 U.S. 274 (1986).
19Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, 477 U.S. 57 (1986).
20Hi-Voltage Wire Works v. City of San Jose, 12 P.3d 1068 (Cal. 2000).
21Aguilar v. Avis Rent A Car, 12 P.3d 1068 (Cal. 2000).
22National Women's Law Center, "Requiring Cloture Votes on Judicial Nominations: The Precedents and the Rationale," January 2003.
23Senator Bob Smith, press release, March 9, 2000.
24Congressional Record, 140 Cong.Rec.S. 13973, Oct. 4, 1994.
