Supreme Court Nomination Fight in Senate Threatens to Deepen SEC’s Vacancy Woes After Scalia’s Death - McDermott Will & Emery

Supreme Court Nomination Fight in Senate Threatens to Deepen SEC’s Vacancy Woes After Scalia’s Death

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Eugene Goldman warned that the nominations of two SEC members, which may be stalled by the fight in the Senate to confirm Justice Antonin Scalia’s successor, leaves the agency operating short-handed and presents practical hurdles and image issues. “From a public policy viewpoint, the preference would be to have a full complement of commissioners to consider the significant rule-making still coming out of Dodd-Frank,” Mr. Goldman said. Read the full article.