This will require making confirmation hearings substantive events, not the Kabuki theater they are now.
Through spokesmen, Ms. Norton has declined to address criticism directly, saying that she will heed the convention in which nominees respond to substantive questions only during their confirmation hearings in the Senate.
To be clear, I fear little of this will come up in a substantive way during the candidate's confirmation.
I hope, when the Senate prepares to debate her confirmation, they have more substantive issues at hand than a line from a 2001 speech, a 2008 decision reached with two other judges and a line from a 2005 speech.
Although the leak was substantive – the tipster said he even received a confirmation email when requesting a card to be sent to him – it's hard to know when exactly Google will officially announce the news.
The vote to confirm or reject an appellate nominee not only stakes out a position on the individual candidate, but also more broadly sets the bar on whether certain substantive views on the law are just too extreme to permit confirmation.
The efforts of members of Congress, human rights activists and the public prevented Lefever's confirmation and ensured that human rights remained a rhetorical and substantive element of U.S. foreign policy in the years that followed.
Most studies, however, are published to (1) report entirely novel findings (only occasionally with substantive basic or clinical studies and rarely a case report), (2) confirm previously reported work (eg, case reports, small preliminary series) when such confirmation remains questionable, or (3) introduce or address controversies in the literature when data and/or conclusions conflict.
Both reviewers provided confirmation of the scope and presentation of the training content and usability of the user interface, and no substantive revisions were required.
But in one of Ms. Kagan's few forcefully stated positions, she wrote in 1995 that she detests "polite and restrained" confirmation hearings, calling them a "vapid and hollow charade" and urging senators to fully explore a court nominee's substantive views.
