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104 Iowa L. Rev. Online 31 (2019-2020)
Senator Chuck Grassley and Judicial Confirmations

handle is hein.journals/iowalrb10 and id is 31 raw text is: Senator Chuck Grassley and Judicial Confirmations Carl Tobias* I. 20 15-16 PROCESSES..................................................................... 33 A. THE 2015-16 DISTRICT COURT PROCESSES............................. 34 1. The Nomination Process ............................................. 34 2. The Confirmation Process-----------------.......................... 36 i. Committee H earings.................................................. 36 ii. Com m ittee Votes ....................................................... 37 iii. Floor Votes ................................................................ 38 B. THE 2015-16 APPELLATE COURT PROCESSES.........................43 1. Kara Farnandez Stoll----------------------------............................43 2. Felipe Restrepo................................................................44 II. 20 17-18 PROCESSES.......................................................................47 A. NOMINATION PROCESSES...........................................................47 B. THE CONFIRMATION PROCESSES ............................................. 54 III. IMPLICATIONS OF THE PROCESSES ............................................... 60 IV. FUTURE SUGGESTIONS ....................................................................62 A. SHORT-TERM SUGGESTIONS .......................................................62 B. LONGER-TERM SUGGESTIONS.................................................... 66 V . C O N CLU SIO N .................................................................................. 68 Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley finished his second term as Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee with the early January 2o1g adjournment of the 115th Congress. He was the first nonlawyer to lead the * Williams Chair in Law, University of Richmond School of Law. I wish to thank Margaret Sanner for her valuable suggestions, Jamie Wood, Emily Benedict and Jane Baber for their valuable research and editing, the University of Richmond Law Library staff for their valuable research, the Iowa Law Review Online editors, Joseph Steigmeyer and Kelsey Ridenhour, for their valuable research, advice, patience and editing, Leslee Stone for her exceptional processing as well as Russell Williams and the Hunton Andrews Kurth Summer Endowment Research Fund for their generous, continuing support. Remaining errors are mine alone. 31