PSCI 3362 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Discharge Petition, Divided Government
29 Mar 2016
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54% of nominees in election years are confirmed. Nominees are less likely to be confirmed during election years. There might be something similar in the senate. It is used when the majority of the chamber wants to consider a legislation but the committee is not reporting it. The committee can do whatever it wants with the bill. But if they reach enough votes, they can get the bill from a committee, straight to the floor. Oral arguments, for an hour (all that is in plain sight) Go back and have a conference meeting, initial vote (doesn"t really matter) The judge isn"t bound to the vote they make here. They are able to pick somebody here and write a majority opinion. Chief justice assigns the opinion to another and they will write the official opinion and circulate it with colleagues. Each court has a lot of vacancies that have not been filled.
