"I do not have a fully developed constitutional philosophy," he said at his appeals court confirmation hearing last year.

Particular attention is focused on his Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

That has been typical for Supreme Court confirmation hearings in recent years.

To that extent, his Supreme Court confirmation hearing has produced little news.

Still, watching a Supreme Court confirmation hearing is not a completely unedifying experience.

Also absent, for the second Supreme Court confirmation hearing in a row, was the scent of war.

And the Senate is preparing its second Supreme Court confirmation review.

Presidents and senators who don't learn the importance of lower court confirmations are condemned to repeat their mistakes.

The swift schedule is itself a kind of testament to the changed atmosphere in Supreme Court confirmation politics.

Drama was not much in evidence as the latest Supreme Court confirmation hearing got under way today, but memory was.

As it unfolds before a national television audience, any Supreme Court confirmation hearing offers a window on the legal debates of the day.

Not too many years ago, it would hardly have seemed likely that questions about federalism might dominate a Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

This is going to be the first Supreme Court confirmation battle of the age of the blogger.

The arguments hinted at the partisan intensity of what will be the first Supreme Court confirmation hearings in nearly 11 years.

Just eight of its 18 members - three Republicans and five Democrats - have Supreme Court confirmation experience.

It is not as dramatic or as significant as Supreme Court confirmations.

He said he would not use abortion as a litmus test in Supreme Court confirmations.

The Supreme Court confirmation process has become one in which both sides, the Administration and the committee members, prepare assiduously.

How is Clarence Thomas doing at his Supreme Court confirmation hearings?

A bitter Supreme Court confirmation fight could serve to reinforce the political polarization that has characterized the presidential race.

But many Democrats were presenting their own case that a Supreme Court confirmation called for a different threshold of questioning.

Abortion Supreme Court confirmation hearings employ a sort of code when it comes to abortion.

A supreme Court nomination would certainly stop Circuit court confirmations, and perhaps district court as well.

A news reporter has speculated that her dissenting opinion could be a point of discussion in a Supreme Court confirmation proceeding.

Clarence Thomas's slippery performance in his Supreme Court confirmation hearings spread discomfort across the political spectrum.