judicial benchmarks
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Hans von Spakovsky
Read more Why the Senate Should Not Defer to the President's Judicial Nominees
What, exactly, is the Senate's role of "Advice and Consent" when it comes to the nominations made by a president? It's a topic of perpetual debate in Washington. One wrong-headed argument holds the role to be quite modest: Senators should defer to a president's choices except in extreme circumstances. That position is advanced far too often by Republicans, and almost never by Democrats (except when a member of their party is doing the nominating). It has led some Republican senators to have a policy against filibustering presidential nominees, no matter how much their confirmation may endanger the rule of law and adherence to the constitutional order.