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EVENT AUDIO: MP3 format, 18 megabytes, 78 minutes

The Next Supreme Court Vacancy
Lessons from the Roberts and Alito Confirmation Processes


Start:	Tuesday, March 14, 2006 5:30 PM

End:	Tuesday, March 14, 2006 7:00 PM

Location:	Ethics and Public Policy Center 1015 15th St., NW Suite 900 (Intersection of 15th and K Streets) Washington, D.C. 20005

In the event that President Bush has the opportunity to nominate another Supreme Court justice, what lessons do the successful confirmations of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito provide? How can the Administration and its supporters best achieve another victory? Can opponents of the nomination wage a more effective campaign?

In this discussion at EPPC, two of the leading commentators on the Roberts and Alito nominations, EPPC President Ed Whelan and New Republic legal affairs editor Jeffrey Rosen, explored these questions and more. Washington Post reporter Charles Lane, one of the nation’s best Supreme Court reporters, moderated the discussion.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Ed Whelan is the President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center where he directs EPPC’s program on The Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture. As a contributor to National Review Online’s Bench Memos blog on judicial nominations, he was a leading commentator on the nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.
Jeffrey Rosen is the legal affairs editor at The New Republic. Rosen is also a professor at the George Washington University Law School, where he teaches constitutional law and criminal procedure. His essays and book reviews have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times Magazine and the The New Yorker.

Green Bag Honors EPPC Amicus Brief

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The Next Supreme Court Vacancy
Lessons from the Roberts and Alito Confirmation Processes
Mar 14, 2006

Two leading commentators on the Roberts and Alito nominations, EPPC President Ed Whelan and New Republic legal affairs editor Jeffrey Rosen, explored what lessons can be drawn from the successful confirmations of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito. If President Bush has the opportunity to nominate another Supreme Court justice, how can the Administration best apply those lessons in order to achieve another victory? How can opponents wage a more effective campaign against a future Bush nominee? Washington Post reporter Charles Lane, one of the nation's best Supreme Court reporters, moderated the discussion. Audio of this event is now available.

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M. Edward Whelan III

Blogging on the Courts

EPPC President Edward Whelan, the director of the program on The Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture, is a leading contributor to Bench Memos, National Review Online's award-winning blog on judicial nominations and constitutional law. You can read a list of all of his postings here.

Here is some of the praise Mr. Whelan has received for his blogging:

From Steve Schmidt, who, as special adviser to President Bush, led the White House's efforts to confirm the Supreme Court nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito: "Ed Whelan was the most influential and valuable commentator on the nominations of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito. His remarkably rapid, thorough, and reliable responses to the distorted attacks on the nominees prevented those attacks from gaining traction. The White House was deeply grateful that he was on our side."

From Paul Mirengoff of the influential Power Line blog: "Blogs like NRO�s Bench Memos � enable legal super-stars like Ed Whelan to shoot down bad arguments against nominees within hours."

The views expressed by EPPC scholars in their work are their individual views only and are not to be imputed to EPPC as an institution.
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