Judicial Selection Process Quotes

Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.

How Obama approaches judicial selection - and how Republicans respond - now becomes an important story and will remain so until the Senate shuts down judicial confirmations, probably in the summer of 2016 if Senate custom in presidential-election years is followed.

Seats on the [Court] bench are not reserved for causes or interests. They're given to those who will uphold the rule of law so long as the nominee is well-qualified to interpret and apply the law.

[Donald Trump] said that he would likely have a decision and an announcement by the end of January [2017] and that'll obviously take a great deal of energy. It's enormously important in the life of the Court and the life of the nation.

I advocate the appointment of [Federal] Judges by the Senate.

What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.

Can the public feel secure with a host of judges elected for a variety of conflicting reasons.

I have always thought that term limits for Justices sound good until you really give the issue some thought.

The practice introduced by some of the new or revised State Constitutions in America, of submitting judicial officers to periodical popular re-election, will be found, I apprehend, to be one of the most dangerous errors ever yet committed by democracy…

I had the longest judicial vacancy in the history of the United States - on the Eastern District of North Carolina. Not many people know that.

Blue slips enable home-state senators to ensure that the federal judges serving in their states are highly qualified.