President Biden spent decades in the Senate and presided over the transformation of Supreme Court fights into hyperpartisan affairs. Now he is pushing to lower the temperature for his own nominee.
The president has said that he wants the advice and consent of the Senate as he deliberates, despite the reality that his nominee may draw few votes from the other side of the aisle.
The California Supreme Court has upheld the convictions and death sentences of three gang members for the mistaken identity murders of three teenage boys who were walking home from a party in Pasadena on Halloween in 1993.