Posted on 10/11/2018 10:55:10 PM PDT by Innovative
The Senate confirmed 15 of President Trump’s judicial picks Thursday night after GOP leaders reached a deal with Democrats, clearing about a third of the backlog and closing up shop through Election Day to give senators a chance to campaign.
Three of the judges are for the powerful circuit courts of appeals, while the other 12 were for district court positions.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I knew someone would come out and post a negative comment.
I’m good with that.
We’d all be better off most times if all 535 of those Congresscritters took the oath of office on day 1 and immediately adjourned until the following election day two years down the road.
Article said the DEAL was:
“Some Republicans had hoped senators would stay in town to work on all 49 judicial picks who’d been ready for floor votes. But the 15 was the BEST DEAL the GOP could get.”
... means there will be 34 judicial nominees waiting for votes when the Senate returns in November for a LAME-DUCK session.
Yep - in this particular instance for 2018, it may have been better to let them run the 30 hour clock on each of these nominees so that they *didn’t* have the chance to go home and campaign.
With the Senate map tilted so far in the R’s favor this year, I might have kept them in town and let them have to choose between campaigning for themselves and missing the votes on judicial nominees and explaining it to their base.
It is never a good thing to make deals with the devil, or his team.
I sure would like to know exactly how many days a year Congress is actually in session.
Exactly! Deal my ass, win more seats!
fwiw; here is a list of all open federal judicial vacancies (146 of them). There are 71 nominees pending (now 56). There are seats that have been open for several years. There are currently 75 vacancies without a nominee yet; so it is vital to retain the Senate; and get through them all this next year before the 2020 campaign season starts.
This list is not updated for the most recent 15 confirmations; but it does include the vacancy created by Brett Kavanaugh’s elevation to the USSC.
http://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/current-judicial-vacancies
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee today approved by a vote of 16-5 the Court Imbalance Restructure Concerning Updates to Impacted Tribunals (CIRCUIT) Act of 2018, H.R. 6754. This bill, authored by Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Subcommittee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), modifies the structure of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
The federal courts of appeal have regularly expanded in number and split in response to new states and territories being added to the Union as well as population growth. There are currently 12 regional circuits in addition to the Federal Circuit. The Ninth Circuit is the largest circuit in caseload, population, and geography.
The CIRCUIT Act would implement the 1998 White Commission’s recommendation to create three regional divisions within the Ninth Circuit in order to improve judicial efficiency.
The divisions would include a Northern Division, comprised of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington,
a Middle Division comprised of the existing Northern and Eastern Districts of California, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada, and the Northern Marianas,
a Southern Division comprised of Arizona and the existing Central and Southern Districts of California,
and a Circuit Division which would hear certain cases including where two or more Divisions have reached final decisions of law that conflict.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Subcommittee Chairman Issa praised today’s approval of the CIRCUIT Act in the statements below.
Chairman Goodlatte: “For the past several decades, the size of the Ninth Circuit has continued to grow far in excess of other circuits. Twenty percent of the U.S. population now resides in this circuit with nine states and two territories, making it twice the size of any other circuit. The geographic breadth and workload of the Ninth Circuit makes it challenging for parties and their counsel to have timely court dates in their region. “The CIRCUIT Act does not include an outright split of the Ninth Circuit but instead creates regional divisions in an effort to ensure our federal judiciary is functioning in the fairest and most efficient manner for the citizens it serves. I thank Subcommittee Chairman Issa for introducing this legislation and am pleased the Committee has passed it today.”
Subcommittee Chairman Issa: “Currently, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is the largest of the 13 federal appellate courts and, on average, hears about a quarter of the nation’s cases brought before the appellate courts in a given year. For years, many have called for this court to be divided, but there remains widespread disagreement on how those divisions should be made. The CIRCUIT Act is a step toward making this needed change.
By dividing the Ninth Circuit into regional divisions that effectively function as individual appellate courts, we open the door to determining whether a circuit split would be feasible while, at the same time, preserve the current Ninth Circuit as a single appellate court.”
Enjoy
https://judiciary.house.gov/press-release/house-judiciary-committee-approves-legislation-to-improve-efficiency-of-ninth-circuit/
Yep. That seems to be a rather rational question doesn’t it.
On a modest $174K salary, too. Yeah, that's a lot of money to most of us, but in the high-cost, high-tax DC area it's not enough to make you rich. A full accounting of ALL income should be required of every officeholder. And all political donations should be ANONYMOUS. You can't sell influence if you don't know who is buying.
Not a negative comment at all. It’s the reality. While some judge candidates look conservative on paper, they become judges and seem to be less conservative then imagined. The same hold trues in the reverse. Sometimes we actually got we we had thought we were going to get. I was making no comment about any of the judges in particular, just an observation over the many decades I have been attentive politically.
What kind of deal does one make with the devil?
So can’t his next Scotus nominee come from this list and the Senate wouldn’t be able to complain since they already confirmed them?
At the moment, it may seem like the same thing. It's not.
In 6 years, someone other than Donald Trump will be President. MAGA must continue beyond the Trump Administration.
Trump senators are constitutional senators, so it is the same thing. And Trump will be President until 2025.
And then he will not be President. Someone else will be. We had best understand NOW that MAGA isn't about Trump, or any other charismatic leader. It's about the Constitution, and about We the People. Who will we elect in 2024? We better be thinking about that now ... for sure the enemy is.
Reagan was followed by Bush I, who started undoing his good work.
Trump will be followed by ???? Better not be someone who will undo everything.
Let's not get hung up too much on personalities.
That is all.
Who said anything about personalities, I am talking about their ideology, being pro-Constitution. Trump Senators are running on that platform! What part of that do you have a hard time understanding?
We need to make sure the Senate will maintain a Republican majority.
They can't keep these creeps in D.C. for an extra month?
Why?
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