Updates | The Week of April 17, 2017

The Supreme Court is not “broken” just because it has been made into a Presidential electoral prize, reasons Bob Bauer at More Soft Money Hard Law.

The public needs to face the truth about the Supreme Court to fix the confirmation process, argues Eric Segall at Dorf on Law.
Will Baude responds with skepticism at the Volokh Conspiracy.

President Trump may nominate three new Third Circuit judges, but the home-state senators could block the nominations; Mathew Stiegler considers what comes next at CA3blog.

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