Recently published, the the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Chief Jusge Peter Eckerstrom: Yes, the Senate Elevated Partisan Political Goals Over Constitutional Text When It Refused to Consider President Obama’s Nominee to Replace Justice Scalia, 21(3) U. Pa. J. Const. L. (forthcoming circa Mar. 2019), 21(4) U. Pa. J. Const. L. Online 1 (Feb. 2019).
This is a reply to Seth Barrett Tillman, On the Senate’s Purported Constitutional Duty to Meaningfully Consider Presidential Nominees to the Supreme Court of the United States: A Response to Chief Judge Eckerstrom, 21(3) U. Pa. J. Const. L. (forthcoming circa Mar. 2019), 21(3) U. Pa. J. Const. L. Online 1 (Feb. 2019).
And Chief Judge Eckerstrom's original article is The Garland Nomination, the Senate’s Duty, and the Surprising Lessons of Constitutional Text, 21 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 33 (2018).
Regular readers will know that I am (with all respect to Chief Judge Eckerstrom) entirely with Professor Tillman on this one.
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