Both Republicans and Democrats complain about the difficulty of confirming their nominees for judicial posts, but there has been no systematic study of this problem. A recent paper by John R. Lott Jr. examines all the District and Appeals Court nominations made from the beginning of Jimmy Carter's administration through the end of George W. Bush's first term and analyzes the length of the confirmation process as well as the confirmation rates. Are there correlations between the quality of a candidate, the level of a job responsibility, and the time it takes for confirmation? C. Boyden Gray, William P. Marshall, and Todd J. Zywicki will discuss these issues at this panel event.
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