Posted on 05/11/2019 3:11:34 AM PDT by cotton1706
This will be a weekly post.
Count is now 104 judges confirmed.
63 District Court judges
39 Circuit Court judges
2 Supreme Court justices
The two judges confirmed were for the 2nd circuit, the New York circuit!! There will be two more vacancies after June as two judges take senior status. If Trump fills these seats the 2nd circuit will flip to majority Republican appointees!
Have you noticed better rulings from the 9th circuit lately? This is due to Trump appointees. And there are currently three more nominees pending in the Senate (two on the floor, one in committee).
And June is coming. Will Ginsburg retire?
There are 144 vacancies. Only 57 nominations. Does Trump plan to nominate for the other 87 anytime soon? Many seats have been vacant several years.
Vacancies in the Federal Judiciary
116th Congress
Last updated on 05/11/2019
Total Vacancies:144
Total Nominees Pending:57
https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/current-judicial-vacancies
Will Ginsburg retire? NOPE!!!
She’ll go out on a gurney in a bag. But, I don’t think she’s alive anyway, I think it’s body double.
86 yrs old .... lung cancer .... can’t stay awake for State of the Union .... and after lung cancer surgery dashes into the courtroom, like a spring chicken.
From a February article:
At 85, Ginsburg sometimes appears frail, moving at a slow shuffle with her head slumped at the shoulders. But her entrance in the courtroom Tuesday was unusually vigorous. She darted quickly to her seat beside Chief Justice John Roberts with her head aloft, cheeks locked in a broad smile.
Should it start to make us wonder if, in addition to the 2 or 3-Tiered Justice System we have, do we also have a, 2 or 3-Teired Healthcare system, where certain folks can get Star Trek level medical care and the rest of us don’t. She isn’t the only one. Jimmy Carter is in his 90s, diagnosed with brain cancer and is walking around like nothing happened. Hmmmm......
Future Vacancies in the Federal Judiciary
116th Congress
Last updated on05/11/2019
Total Vacancies:14
https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/future-judicial-vacancies
I hear Thomas and Alito May retire. I say good. Replace with 40 year olds.
Excellent!
Does anybody have a breakdown of how many Circuit Court vacancies remain or will become vacant?
Damn good news.
Nice to get the confirmations but the pace needs to increase.
All the current nominees are from this year. The earlier ones were erased at the end of last years session.
There are only 3 open CCA seats without nominees: 9th, 5th & 3rd.
Two more in the 2nd Circuit are known future vacancies.
The rest of the seats without nominees are district level (75), 7 CL(Federal Claims) and 2 International Trade, and 12 more “future” district seats.
When nominees from the last session sat for up to 2 years following nomination and had life disruptions and uncertainty for long months it would seem better to nominate judges in a rolling fashion so that we are 30-40 ahead rather than having judges withdraw during a long wait. POTUS did nominate 8 less than a week ago.
See the links I posted above. They may help?
Thank you for the explanation.
Thanks for the links.
For the first time in my life the nomination of judges and the composition of the courts is of gripping interest to me. I believe that filling the courts with justices who base their rulings on Constitutional grounds and are not activists is the biggest single step POTUS can take to safe guard the Freedoms our Nation was founded to uphold and to preserve the American Way of Life.
The pendulum has swung so far it was threatening to get stuck. We should spare no effort to send it back the other way, weighted to remain conservative for a generation at least.
I am hoping that we will have many elderly conservative justices retiring in 2021-3 so that the bench is filled with young replacements rather than giving a possible liberal President seats that will soon be available for his/her candidates.
Also interesting to me is that the Judicial vacancy page which gives a date last updated does not reflect recent nominations. I have no clue why they are behind about a month but there is one circuit judicial nomination for the 3rd circuit & 17 District court nominations that are not yet listed.
https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/current-judicial-vacancies
The Whitehouse listing of Presidential actions lists nominations as they are made. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/
The judicial nominees page does not list the nominations of:
May 3
Peter J. Phipps of Pennsylvania, to serve as a Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Douglas R. Cole of Ohio, to serve as Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
Charles R. Eskridge III of Texas, to serve as Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Kea W. Riggs of New Mexico, to serve as Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico.
William Shaw Stickman IV of Pennsylvania, to serve as Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Jennifer Philpott Wilson of Pennsylvania, to serve as Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
April 8th
Gary R. Brown of New York, to serve as a District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Stephanie A. Gallagher of Maryland, to serve as a District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.
Diane Gujarati of New York, to serve as a District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Lewis J. Liman of New York, to serve as a District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Eric R. Komitee of New York, to serve as a District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Rachel P. Kovner of New York, to serve as a District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Mary E. McElroy of Rhode Island, to serve as a District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island.
Martha M. Pacold of Illinois, to serve as a District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Mary M. Rowland of Illinois, to serve as a District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Steven C. Seeger of Illinois, to serve as a District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
John L. Sinatra, Jr., of New York, to serve as a District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York.
Mary Kay Vyskocil of New York, to serve as a District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
It must be a "special" privilege to be a District Circuit court judge in a foreign country...
I am bucked up that POTUS is filling NY District court seats. The appeals court for the 2nd district will flip when the two future vacancies are filled. 3 out of the 4 District courts are potential flips.
Eastern District: 5 Bush appointees, 4 vacancies, 6 Obama. The seats being filled will flip the court to R appointed 9R:6.
Northern District: 1 Bush 1 Vacant 1 Clinton(1937) 2 Obama. We need a little bit more work to flip that court. 2:3R when vacancy filled
Southern District: IMPOSSIBLE 4 Clinton, 3 Bush, 15 Obama, 6 open. Incumbents mostly younger judges. 9R:19D
Western District: 3 Obama 1 vacant(oldest incumbent 68) 1R:3D when vacancy filled
Dang! Those commie scum sure know what they are doing... They packed the most important NY District...
My question would be: "What the heck was Bushy doing for eight years that he left a possible 16 vacancies for obunghole to fill...
Whoops! I forgot... Bushy was too busy creating the environment for an unending stream of migrant invader trash entering, and sucking dry, the country...
You’ll get no argument from me.
Federalist Society members confirmed or elevated in the 115th Congress: Walker, Lance E. Sullivan, Richard J. Bibas, Stephanos Porter, David J. Richardson, Julius N. Duncan, Stuart Kyle Engelhardt, Kurt D. Ho, James C. Oldham, Andrew S. Willett, Don R. Ashe, Barry W. Summerhays, Robert R. Kernodle, Jeremy D. Bush, Don K. Larsen, Joan L. Nalbandian, John B. Thapar, Amul R. Barrett, Amy Coney Brennan, Michael B. Hanlon, James Patrick Grasz, L. Steven Kobes, Jonathan A. Stras, David R. Brnovich, Susan Lanza, Dominic W. Bennett, Mark J. Nelson, Ryan D. Eid, Allison H. Marks, Emily Coody Branch, Elizabeth L. Grant, Britt Cagle Newsom, Kevin C. Self III, Tripp (Tilman E.) Baker, R. Stan Katsas, Gregory G. Kelly, Timothy J. McFadden, Trevor N. Gorsuch, Neil M. Kavanaugh, Brett M. Federalist Society members confirmed or elevated in the 116th Congress: Bianco, Joseph F. Park, Michael H. Matey, Paul B. Rushing, Allison Jones Murphy, Eric E. Readler, Chad A. Miller, Eric D. Domenico, Daniel D. Wyrick, Patrick R. Brasher, Andrew L. Altman, Roy K. Ruiz II, Rodolfo A. Rao, Neomi (elevated to replace Justice Kavanaugh) Wolson, Joshua
I think there were two Federalist Society members confirmed to district judgeships during the Bush presidency
Looking through the Bushie confirmations, there were a disturbing number of 9x-0 Senate votes.
For Trump, it's a lot of 5x-4x votes...
That's a GREAT sign.
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