Supreme Court Pick Shadowed by Reid’s Admission

By: Curt Levey (Diary)  |  May 13th at 10:23 AM  | 

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid admitted yesterday that he doesn’t have the 60 votes necessary to confirm Dawn Johnsen as head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, because at least a few Democrats will vote against her. That should give President Obama pause as he considers his first Supreme Court nomination – all the more so because a President’s selection of judicial nominees | Read More »