Barney Frank does want Kerry's Senate seat.

"A month ago, or a few weeks ago, I said I wasn’t interested... It was kind of like you’re about to graduate, and they said: 'You g...

Common Cause v. Biden, challenging the Senate filibuster, was "a nostalgic evocation of the old days of public law litigation."

Observes Garrett Epps. The federal courts have become almost implacably hostile to this kind of reform lawsuit, and those who bring them kno...

Robert Bork has died.

He was 85. From the above-linked NYT obituary: Judge Bork, a bear of a man with a scraggly red beard and untamed frizz on a balding pate who...

Arlen Specter has died.

He was 82. ADDED: He played an important role in Supreme Court nominations: Arriving on Capitol Hill in 1981, he became a dominant force du...

"The Tea Party's Senate Insurgency Hits Texas."

Have you noticed Ted Cruz? A former state solicitor general and clerk to Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, the 41-year-old Mr. ...

Jonathan Chait sees "frightening outlines of a future systemic crisis"...

... in Richard Lugar's defeat.  I'm seeing outlines of liberals getting really nervous about what is — I suspect — the American vote...

Is Eric Hovde the new Ron Johnson?

Larry Kaufman on the GOP Senate primary in Wisconsin. But Ron Johnson did not have to fight off Tommy Thompson, the former governor who chos...

"I think by this shift to a sense of entitlement and dependence on government, we're losing a bit of our soul."

The last line of the new ad for Eric Hovde, who's running for the GOP nomination for the Senate here in Wisconsin. What do you think? We...

Tommy Thompson "raises more than GOP foes... in the U.S. Senate race" says the Wisconsin State Journal headline.

But let's take a closer look. His campaign says he's raised "roughly $660,000 in the first quarter of 2012," but ex-congre...

What's going on with Senator Ron Johnson and his staff?

It's hard to read between the lines of this Rollcall piece . While top Republican sources expressed exasperation at the internal turmoil...

"Tony Scalia's Retirement Has Started Early."

Says Charles P. Pierce on the Esquire website. Calling a man of Italian ancestry "Tony" when that isn't his nickname? Isn...

The Marion County Election Board finds Sen. Richard Lugar ineligible to vote in his erstwhile home distict.

The vote was 2-1, with the two Democrats on the board deciding that Lugar, a Republican, has abandoned his residence to go live in Washingto...

"Snowe's Gift To Obama."

An Andrew Sullivan blog post title.

Harry Reid names Patty Murray, Max Baucus, and John Kerry to the deficit-reduction "super-committee."

The WSJ reports , noting that these 3 "are considered neither ideological purists nor eager compromisers." Mr. Reid avoided choosi...

A song by men in knickers, searched out because Meade just said "Quit It" like that.

"I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore" — the first single by the Young Rascals . That clip is their first TV appearance (in ...

"In a resumption of the judge wars from last decade, Republican senators today voted for the first successful filibuster ..."

"... of one of President Barack Obama's judicial nominees, Goodwin Liu.... The vote was a throwback to Democratic filibusters of so...

Let's talk about Joe Lieberman.

It seems to me that the Senate is likely to end up 50-50 . Did you notice California is considered a toss-up now? But that 50 for the Democr...

The Senate will end up 50-50.

I predict, after clicking on the details to the 6 races counted as "Toss Ups."

"Not backing down... President Obama has formally renominated five judges whose candidacies were previously derailed by Senate Republicans."

Sam Stein reports. (Is "reports' the right word?) Obama's decision to renominate these figures demonstrates that the White Hou...

"How Lisa Murkowski (might have) lost."

Explaining Joe Miller.