Senate Confirms 37-Year-Old to Lifetime Seat on U.S. Circuit Court

Huffpost ^ | March 5, 2019 | Jennifer Bendery

[House Atreides]

The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Allison Jones Rushing, 37, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, making her the youngest federal judge in the country.

The Senate voted 53-44 to put Rushing into the lifetime court seat. Every Republican present voted for her. Every Democrat present opposed her.

[wardaddy]

The next SCOTUS vacancy better go to this lady.... She WILL NEVER go wobbly like Roberts

[spudville]

Democrats are misogynistic and hate smart women

[catnipman]

yeah, no doubt about it: Trump sucks ... we’d have been SO much better off if Hillary had been elected ...

[House Atreides]

yeah, no doubt about it: Trump sucks ... we’d have been SO much better off if Hillary had been elected ...
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Dude, if that’s your takeaway from my post #1 above, then you need to work on your reading comprehension.

On March 1, 2019 there were 151 VACANT federal judgeships out of 890 authorized judgeships:

https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/archive-judicial-vacancies/2019/03/summary

Yesterday there were 153 VACANT federal judgeships.

And today, there are 154 VACANT federal judgeships:

https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/current-judicial-vacancies

I don’t make these counts up. They’re from the official US Government website for US Federal Courts to which I provided hot links to substantiate the numbers.

We’re in the 3rd month of 2019 and the Republican controlled Senate has CONFIRMED A GRAND TOTAL OF TWO JUDGES. And to me that is unacceptable. They need to confirm judges at a rate FASTER than vacancies are occurring - fast enough to get the “current” vacancy count down to 40 - 50 and then keep it at that level or, better yet, even lower.

[The Pack Knight]

Washington comPost headline: “The Senate just confirmed a judge who interned at an anti-LGBTQ group. She’ll serve for life.” The “anti-LGBTQ group” is the Alliance Defending Freedom. This is in their “Local” section, not “Opinion” or “Analysis.”

[TBP]

Second-term SCOTUS nominee?

[TBP]

Her or Amy Coney Barrett, and I actually wouldn’t mind having them both on SCOTUS.

[TBP]

One of the worst justices ever. Anything Big Government wanted to do to the people, Douglas was on board. His voting record was horrible. He enabled every bit of tyranny in America.

[TBP]

Let’s make more vacancies. Break up the 9th Circuit.

[TBP]

RFK might well be a Republican today, although he’d be in the Collins-Murkowski wing.

[TBP]

By the time Mozart was her age, he had been dead for four years.

And Jesus.

[TBP]

She looks like Frazier Crane’s wife.

Dr. Lilith Crane, played by Bebe Neuwirth, who also has a lot of Broadway credits to her name:

Chicago, Damn Yankees, and many others. I joked that she's making a career out of doing Gwen Verdon.

[sparklite2]

The hint should serve to remind us that, civil wars are often the end game to such completely opposite and irreconcilable differences.

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How do you fight a civil war with people who look just like you and even live next door to you? I don’t think civilians as such will fight it. But I can see hastily assembled militias and state troopers resisting federal incursion until the federal forces themselves disintegrate from internal divisions.

[sparklite2]

Heh.

[adorno]

How do you fight a civil war with people who look just like you and even live next door to you?

You start out by declaring secession from the union by certain states, those states being the most conservative ones, then, county by county can also declare their independence from their socialist states. Same with conservative states where certain counties might trend liberal.

[sparklite2]

That isn’t civil war so much a dissolution of the union, which doesn’t have to be violent.

I cannot imagine a state in which half the counties seceded and the other half remain. You wouldn’t really have a state, would you?

[RinaseaofDs]

California, New York, and Washington all have counties that would walk away from their Metro counties tomorrow.

They’re like a boil on the state.

[RinaseaofDs]

McConnell deserves credit. This deserves credit.

[RockyTx]

Trump is doing a great job.

here is a list of appeals court vacancies and pending-nomination.

vacant 2.3.3.3.5.DC.9.9.9.9.9

pending 2.2.3.DC.9.9.9.9

[RockyTx]

typo
vacant 2.2.3.3 etc