Three Judges Confirmed This Week

[cotton1706]

This will be a weekly post.

Count is now at 106 judges confirmed.

65 District Court judges

41 Circuit Court judges

2 Supreme Court justices

The one circuit court confirmation this week was for the 9th circuit.

More to come next week!

[Lizavetta]

Why aren’t the libs screeching about these more?

[SMGFan]

Are these 5 vacant seats accurate as listed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_Circuit_Judges

3 in 9th circuit

1 in 1st Circuit

1 in 5th Circuit

[clintonh8r]

Isn’t that 108?

[bkopto]

We appreciate your ongoing updates!

[JayGalt]

I think you meant:
1 in 3rd Circuit nominee Phipps,Peter Joseph,
1 in 5th Circuit no nominee &
3 in 9th circuit nominees Bress,Daniel Aaron & Collins,Daniel Paul.

[ConservaTeen]

9th district? Hopefully a conservative judge!! Is it?

[cotton1706]

Yes, you are correct. 108.

[cotton1706]

Yes, very conservative.

[SMGFan]

thanks, my link did not list nominees.

Are there still other JUdicial nominations left on other court levels for Trump?

[clintonh8r]

Thanks for keeping score for us!

[kiryandil]

Court Of Appeals
#40	Kenneth K. Lee*	        Ninth District	     
  confirmed May 15, 2019	52–45
District Courts
#64	Michael J. Truncale*	East District Texas	 
  confirmed May 14, 2019	49–46
#65	Wendy Vitter	        East District Louisiana	 
  confirmed May 16, 2019	52–45

*Federalist Society member

[JayGalt]

The Federalist % is holding up, I am glad to see.

I got interested today as to why the NY State District nominees from April are still not showing up on the list of open seats & nominees. They all were holdovers from nominations in the 2017-2018 Congressional Session and are part of a package of nominees that Schumer/Gillibrand & the administration agreed on:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/the-white-house-has-pitched-a-nominee-for-manhattans

Looking over the nominees individually there appear to be a few individuals that have donated to the Democrat & a couple to the Republican, several that have no political writings or activities. So I have no idea why they are not shown as nominees on the US Gov page but my excitement is somewhat realistically tempered by the couple of Democratic loyalists in the bunch.
https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/current-judicial-vacancies

[JayGalt]

Those are all the Circuit Judgeship seats open at this time.

There are two Circuit Court Judges who have given notice of going to senior status this summer (5/31 & 6/30) both in the 2nd Circuit.

The remaining vacancies are in District Courts, CL & IT Courts.
There are 142 such vacancies with 60(67) nominees in place. The official site doesn’t list the 7-NY nominees from April.

[JayGalt]

Thanks again for posting this weekly thread. It’s great to have a place to rejoice, share frustration & keep abreast of how the campaign to redefine and revitalize the courts is progressing.

[SMGFan]

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

US District Courts (includes territorial courts*) 122 vacancies , 51 nominations pending

[JayGalt]

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

It’s pretty bad when the site has no internal consistency. Perhaps different people are responsible for updating the pages.

I check against the Wiki listings from time to time & for extra information about the judges. You can just change the court # in the address bar and research to see the other courts.
The District Courts are links in each Circuit Court

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Second_Circuit

[kiryandil]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Donald_Trump

[kiryandil]

On that Trump nominee page:

                                                nomination date
–	Gary Richard Brown	E.D.N.Y.	May 15, 2018[Rn 15]	–	–	–	–	–
–	Diane Gujarati	        E.D.N.Y.	May 15, 2018[Rn 16]	–	–	–	–	–
–	Lewis J. Liman	        S.D.N.Y.	May 15, 2018[Rn 17]	–	–	–	–	–
–	Eric R. Komitee	        E.D.N.Y.	May 15, 2018[Rn 17]	–	–	–	–	–
–	Rachel P. Kovner	E.D.N.Y.	May 15, 2018[Rn 17]	–	–	–	–	–
–	John Sinatra	        W.D.N.Y.	May 15, 2018[Rn 17]	–	–	–	–	–
–	Mary Kay Vyskocil	S.D.N.Y.	May 15, 2018[Rn 17]	

[JayGalt]

For easy reference:
Clerked for Scalia, no partisan background...
https://vettingroom.org/2018/07/25/rachel-kovner/#ftnt_ref7
former member of the Federalist Society, Republican political donations
https://vettingroom.org/2018/07/27/judge-mary-kay-vyskocil/
A White House pick, Republican
https://vettingroom.org/2018/07/24/john-sinatra/
Republican Donor, White collar, corporate crime &Consumer Fraud experience
https://vettingroom.org/2018/07/27/eric-komitee/
As part of the package, the White House has nominated a candidate they wouldn’t otherwise consider: Lewis Liman. Clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens Liman has been an active political Democratic donor.
https://vettingroom.org/2018/08/09/lewis-liman/
No political leanings evident, experience as federal prosecutor
https://vettingroom.org/2018/08/13/diane-gujarati/
No evidence of political leanings
https://vettingroom.org/2018/08/16/judge-gary-brown/