The Washington, DC liberal political elite is spinning madly over the fact that it appears that the Obama Administration and FBI spied on the Trump campaign. If true, this is extremely troubling and possibly the worst example of the politicization of the FBI by the last administration. As Rep. Devin Nunes, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, stated:

Perhaps realizing that their ahistorical and inaccurate laments over the death of the blue slip tradition last week were ineffective, during today's Senate Judiciary Committee meeting, Democrats returned to attacking President Trump's judicial nominees' qualifications.  Today is the 64th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, so the Democrats chose that as their preferred mode of attack.

Under the leadership of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, President Trump's well qualified judicial nominees are slowly, but surely, getting confirmed despite obstructionist Senate Democrats. In this post, we wanted to provide a brief recap of the current judicial landscape.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has ruled, in United States v. Benton (8th Cir. May 11, 2018) that three officials from Ron Paul's 2012 presidential campaign committed criminal acts by (1) paying an Iowa State Senator for various services, including his endorsement, through a sub-contract with a video production vendor and (2) reporting the purpose of the expenditure as "audio/visual services."

Broward County Election Official Brenda Snipes is finally starting to face the music for her years of admitted vote fraud and incompetence. Ironically, it was for her efforts regarding a Democrat Primary for then DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman that she is beginning to face the music:

The RNLA recently announced two initiatives to honor its Founding Chair Bob Horn: re-naming the Chairman's Award in his honor to the Robert J. Horn Chairman's Award and establishing the Bob Horn Fund for Law Students to encourage law student participation in the RNLA:

Today, the Senate confirmed Judge Michael Brennan to the Seventh Circuit and invoked cloture on Joel Carson (Tenth Circuit) and John Nalbandian (Sixth Circuit).  The Senate Judiciary Committee favorably reported Mark Bennett (Ninth Circuit), Nancy E. Brasel (D. Minn.), Robert R. Summerhays (W.D. La.), and Eric C. Tostrud (D. Minn.) to the Senate.

As we highlighted earlier this week, this is an important week for many of President Trump's judicial nominees, especially circuit court nominees. Several noteworthy events happened today.

Although Howard Kurtz probably would not put it this way, he is a dying breed of journalist. He believes in journalists reporting the news andnot journalists writing their preferred narrative. His new book Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War Over the Truth details how many of his fellow reporters have declared war on journalism itself. As he writes in the afterword:

This week is a busy and important one for judicial confirmations.  First, the Senate is taking confirmation votes on six excellent circuit court nominees: Michael B. Brennan (Seventh Circuit), Joel M. Carson (Tenth Circuit), Kurt D. Engelhardt (Fifth Circuit), John B. Nalbandian (Sixth Circuit), Michael Y. Scudder (Seventh Circuit), and Amy J. St. Eve (Seventh Circuit).  The Senate invoked cloture on Judge Engelhardt's nomination this evening, 64 to 31.