Posted on 01/19/2019 7:20:11 AM PST by cotton1706
This will be a weekly post.
Count remains at 85 judges confirmed.
53 District Court judges
30 Circuit judges
2 Supreme Court justices
So far this Congress President Trump has nominated only a handful of judges (all previous nominees expired with the end of the last Congress).
If the Senate is going to get going on judges, then the President needs to get going on nominations. Perhaps the shutdown is playing a role in this delay.
Also, this week, rumors abound of Justice Ginsburg's absence, health and potential retirement.
And this week, the Senate Judiciary had hearings on William Barr, nominee for Attorney General. His confirmation is pretty much assured. Then a Deputy Attorney General nomination should follow, once Rosenstein steps aside.
Cotton, thanks for posting. There so MUCH that needs to be done in this area...delay will only lead to MISSED OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE COULD REGRET FOR DECADES,
The President and the Senate need to FILL QUICKLY ALL FEDERAL JUDICIAL VACANCIES. Renominate those who were still pending at the end of the last Congress and vet, recruite, and nominate new candidates for ALL the remaining vacancies. Act like the future of the Nation and the Republic depend upon it...since they may!
We have a large number of ACTUAL federal judicial vacancies. IMHO our HIGHEST PRIORITY needs to be FILLING ALL JUDICIAL VACANCIES — EXISTING vacancies.
FOR THIS YEAR I’d like to see the Republican Senate and the President work so, by the end of the calendar year, we’ll be able to count the number of remaining judicial vacancies on one hand.
BOTH the Senate and President Trump need to get cracking to QUICKLY fill the MANY VACANCIES on US federal judgeships. There are over 140 vacancies of which around 70 had nominees pending in the last Congress. But there were around 70 for which Trump had not yet submitted nominees.
https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/current-judicial-vacancies
And there are other judgeships where near-future vacancies are known. These also need nominations in the pipeline.
https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/future-judicial-vacancies
I hope President Trump (and Lindsey Graham, the new Judiciary Committee Chairman) give this effort the URGENCY it needs.
TIME TO GET MOVING SENATOR GRAHAM!
Mitch is going to slow walk them again. He’s in cahoots with Schumer to slow down the process.
Rosenstein should step aside, right into prison. That’s where he belongs with the other host of usual suspects in this coup. I’d even save a place for Sessions for his 2 years of sedition.
Mitch is going to slow walk them again. He’s in cahoots with Schumer to slow down the process.
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Well, maybe..,we’ll see. But we need to be honest and say that McConnell has nothing now to slow walk. The President needs to UP HIS GAME on the judicial vacancy front by GETTING GOOD NOMINEES IN. And Graham needs to up the game of the Senate Judiciary Committee andget the nominees approved by the Committee. Then McConnell can have the opportunity of pushing them through the confirmation vote process.
TIME IS BEING WASTED.
We also need to trim the number of executive branch positions which require Senate confirmation, to at most 100.
Amen to post 2. Bush II on the start of his second term blew his chance to fill the judiciary with conservative judges. He announced he would fix Social Security instead of pushing judge nominations. S.S. went nowhere and few judges got through the Senate.
What is there excuse this past week? Or the previous?
Even if nothing happened this week - what we've got so far is a total win. Thanks for posing and keeping this thread.
There are 12 circuit court seats vacant. The #1 priority should be to push those through. 30 is a good start for President Trump’s first two years in putting Strict Constructionists on the Circuit Courts but Obama appointed 55. We’re only halfway toward countering the damage he did so far.
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