Posted on 05/08/2017 6:58:51 PM PDT by Kaslin
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration on Monday named 10 judges and other law professionals it plans to nominate for key posts as President Donald Trump works to place more conservatives on the nation's federal courts.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that among the candidates are individuals previously named on Trump's list of 21 possible picks for Supreme Court justice. All nominees would require Senate confirmation.
The announcement came less than a month after Trump's pick for the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, was confirmed, restoring the court's conservative tilt.
Trump will nominate judges John K. Bush of Kentucky and Joan Larsen of Michigan for the bench of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. David Stras of Minnesota will be nominated for the 8th Circuit.
Amy Coney Barrett of Indiana will be nominated to serve on the 7th Circuit. Kevin Newsom of Alabama will be nominated as a circuit judge on the 11th Circuit.
Also to be nominated for federal court positions are David Nye of Idaho, Scott L. Palk of Oklahoma and Damien M. Schiff of California.
The president will also nominate two people for federal judgeships: Dabney L. Friedrich of Washington, D.C., and Terry F. Moorer of Alabama.
While appeals courts tends to have a lower public profile, their role in adjudicating many of the orders and laws put forth by the administration is significant.
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Hmm, l wonder if AP ran a story when Obongo was stuffing the courts with radical leftists?
Excellent!
Name the same number tomorrow, Mr. President. And Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and after church on Sunday.
Start again next week.
JMHo
AMEN !
Tell this to Mr. George Will - we would not have gotten ONE conservative judge on the federal courts if that clown had his way and Hillary was elected.
Not only would I not waste my breath telling Will or anyone else of his ilk anything, I wouldn't unload my bladder on any of them if they were afire.
JMHo
I suspect be will seat more judges than other president in his 1st term...
Let’s hope so. The media, the LIBS and the anti - Trumper repubs will do whatever they can in their lunacy to oppose them all. Traitors...
watch for the democrats to blue slip them all.
I think I heard that it was 51. I heard it in the media so I am not sure if it is true or not.
I believe the USSC is the only thing that’s ever required 60 instead of 51.
It’s 51 votes, thanks to Hairy Reed.
Yes, it is 51 votes needed in the Senate -— thanks to our good friend Harry Reid. :-)
He has a total of about 120 judges to fill across the United States. Good start. Long way to go. This actually would have been my first task as President to fill these vacancies.
The composition of the courts is the CORE strategy here. Trump can err elsewhere where it can be later corrected, but a court’s decision is largely set in stone.
Yes, remind Will sometimes ignorance is bliss for us as they knows that they don’t knows that they don’t knows.
there are like 20 openings for appeal courts,
80 or so for district courts.
or not,
somebody please post the numbers
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