Judicial Nominees and Remaining Major SCOTUS Decisions
02 June 2017
Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute and Editor-in-Chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review, discusses President Trump's first slate of judicial nominees, how the nomination and confirmation process works, and some of the major cases still waiting to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in its October 2016 Term, which ends in June.
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