“...The U.S. District Court of Maryland’s Chief Magistrate Judge Beth P. Gesner, a Clinton appointee, also sealed her justification for keeping the documents secret in a single-page Dec. 20 order.
On Nov. 15, federal Magistrate Judge Stephanie Gallagher authorized the raid on Dennis Cain’s Union Bridge, Maryland, home. She sealed the government documents justifying it....”
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The President, his staff, Lindsay Graham and Mitch McConnell need to GET BUSY to have more Trump federal judges vetted, nominated and confirmed...SO THAT MORE OF THIS TYPE OF CASE/ACTION IS HANDLED BY TRUMP JUDGES INSTEAD OF LEFTIST DEEP-STATE LOVING JUDGES.
There are MANY, MANY other judicial vacancies that need to gotten to on an URGENT basis. Lindsey Graham needs to spend less time politicking and traveling overseas to interfere with Trump’s foreign policy and MORE TIME FOCUSING ON JUDICIAL VACANCIES. Your spending time hobnobbing with Turkey’s Islamist leader Erdogan doesn’t advance Judicial confirmations, Lindsey!
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!
Trump renominated 51 the other day.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/senate-may-move-to-speed-up-judicial-confirmations January 25, 2019 12:00 AM
Senate may move to speed up judicial confirmations
Senate Republicans, frustrated with delay tactics by Democrats, may soon vote unilaterally to change the chamber rules in order to speed through President Trump’s judicial nominations.
Republican lawmakers told the Washington Examiner they expect Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to call up a vote that would reduce the 30 hours of debate time
lawmakers can now expend before a vote to confirm a judge to the federal bench. more..