Ed Whelan summarized the current state of the judicial confirmation process on Tuesday in National Review (emphasis added):

Last Friday, the Fifth Circuit upheld Texas' voter ID law, which it had amended in 2017 in response to an earlier en banc Fifth Circuit decision.  Judge Edith Jones wrote for the three-judge panel in Veasey v. Abbott, noting the irony that the plaintiffs were challenging, and the district court found invalid, the very interim remedy that both the plaintiffs and the district court had agreed to in 2016 (internal citations omitted): 

Last week, RNLA hosted its 19th annual National Policy Conference. The Conference was a huge success. Today, on Law Day, we choose tohighlight one of those addresses: R. Alexander Acosta, current Secretary of Labor and former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and Dean of the Florida International University College of Law. (emphasis mine)

The RNLA was pleased to present Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt with the 2018 Ed Meese Award at its National Policy Conference on Friday:

Yesterday, a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted in part and denied in part the defendants' motion to dismiss in the challenge to U.C. Berkeley's disparate treatment of conservative speakers:

Friday, Judge Michael Mukasey will be addressing the RNLA’s National Policy Conference. Judge Mukasey is also, of course, a former U.S. Attorney General with an insider's knowledge of what the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) can, and cannot, do. That topic came up on a recent episode of the Laura Ingraham show. First, Judge Mukasey is emphatic that former FBI Director James Comey’s memos that are the basis of his book and talk show appearances are classified:

The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Abbott v. Perez, two consolidated racial redistricting cases out of Texas.  This is a long-running case:

South Texas Law Professor Josh Blackman, who was years before head of the RNLA’s George Mason Law School Chapter, was speaking at a Federalist Society Chapter event at City University of New York Law School when he was protested. He details some of the reactions on his blog (post censored):

The RNLA is pleased to announce that Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will speak at the National Policy Conference next Friday. 

We are pleased to have Carrie Severino speak on one of our breakout panels on "Restoring the Rule of Law to the Judiciary" at RNLA’s National Policy Conference.  Carrie is one of the leading experts on the judicial confirmation process and the qualifications of federal judicial nominees.  Carrie has been in this role for years through both Republican and Democrat control of the White House and Senate.  A few of her recent views.