“Judicial Nominations and Confirmations: Fact and Fiction.”  Russell Wheeler has this year-end report online at The Brookings Institution.

To quote Russ, “2013 saw some preposterous claims (Senator McConnell’s “a confirmation rate of 99 percent”) — and cherry-picked claims (President Obama’s “my judicial nominees have waited three times longer to receive confirmation votes than those of my Republican predecessor”). My goal in this brief year-end wrap-up is to put these developments into perspective, citing a few salient figures drawn from tabulations at the end of the piece.”

This is a great new article.