Michigan and the Sixth Circuit
The Lansing State Journal has a story entitled "Appeals court vacancies may remain unfilled - Michigan senators block 6th Circuit nominations". The article includes the following:
New Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, has been quoted since the November elections as saying he might override tradition and hold hearings on nominees who are not backed by their home-state senators.
You may have read here last month:
I think that, if Levin and Stabenow do not back down, the issue will be resolved by a major structural change, doing away with the current "blue slip" system giving a state's Senators an absolute veto over nominations.
The prediction may be coming true.
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