Interesting Then, and Now:
I was surfing about the Interweb recently and I came across this 2002 article by my colleague Jeffrey Rosen about the failed DC Circuit nominations of Allen Snyder in 1999 and John Roberts in 1992. I remember reading the article when it came out, but it's still pretty interesting to read six years later (in part because Roberts ended up in a relatively high-profile position in the end). Too bad Snyder was never confirmed, though: I thought he would have been an outstanding judge.