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    Senators Grill Trump Judicial Nominees On Provocative Blog Posts

    Two judicial nominees' blogging dominated their confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The posts featured conspiracy theories and an ad hominem attack on a Supreme Court justice.
    by Nina Totenberg Jun 15, 2017 3 minutes

    "The Case of the Bloviating Bloggers."

    That might be an apt title for the mini-drama that took place Wednesday when two judicial nominees came before the Senate Judiciary Committee, among the first batch President Trump has sent to the Senate for confirmation.

    Trump has more than 130 judicial vacancies to fill on the federal courts. The number is unusually large because Republicans blocked dozens of Obama appointees—including uncontroversial ones—in the final years of the Democratic

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