Posted on 09/20/2019 5:26:28 PM PDT by JayGalt
NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE 9/19:
Danielle J. Hunsaker, of Oregon, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, vice Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, retired.
William Joseph Nardini, of Connecticut, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, vice Christopher Droney, retired.
Daniel Mack Traynor, of North Dakota, to be United States District Judge for the District of North Dakota, vice Daniel L. Hovland, retiring.
Nominations sent to the Senate 9/20: Patrick J. Bumatay of California, to serve as Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Lawrence VanDyke of Nevada, to serve as Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
John W. Holcomb of California, to serve as Judge on the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Knut S. Johnson of California, to serve as Judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
Steve Kim of California, to serve as Judge on the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Michelle M. Pettit of California, to serve as Judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
(Excerpt) Read more at whitehouse.gov ...
This submission provides a nominee for the last remaining vacancy in the Second Court of Appeals, another vacancy in the 2nd has a pending confirmation.
The 9th Circuit nominee, Hunsaker, will fill the vacancy for O'Scannlain.
Bumatay & VanDyke, are nominated to fill the announced future vacancies of Carlos T. Bea & Jay S. Bybee. The confirmation of these nominees will fill all empty and announced future vacancies on the 9th Circuit.
Trump previously nominated Bumatay to a 9th Circuit vacancy in October 2018, which drew a sharp reaction from Feinstein, the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which confirms judicial nominees. The Senate did not take up Bumatay’s nomination and it expired at the end of the year.
Following confirmation of the 5 California nominees 6 spots will remain vacant & without nominees in California District Court.
The only remaining vacancy in an Appeals court is in the 5th District where the nominee: Ozerden,Halil Suleyman, is proving somewhat controversial.
The 9th Circuit is going to become one of the most conservative courts in America.
God Bless DJT!!!!!!
I hope he passed them by John Zmirak first. /s
If the three 9th Circuit nominees are original intent, strict constructionist judges, this will make a huge difference (assuming Cocaine Mitch pushes them through).
No offense to Trump, but his White House staff picks have rather sucked and then sacked. These clowns can’t be fired only retired.Who is recommending his judicial picks? How do we know he is not appointing a bunch of Souters or Kennedys to critical courts?
Federalist Society member:
Lawrence VanDyke
https://fedsoc.org/contributors/lawrence-vandyke
Hunsaker was one of four individuals recommended for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by Oregon’s two U.S. Senators, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley.
Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond, said Trump is making an effort to get more conservative and moderate judges into the 9th Circuit Court.
“I don’t know what her political views are, but my sense is [Hunsaker] may be moderate or conservative politically,” Tobias said.
Bumatay is another Federalist Society pick.
Some far-right commentators are objecting to Bumatay’s nomination because he’s gay, but he’s a conservative jurist — he’s a member of the right-wing Federalist Society, which has recommended judges to the Trump administration, including newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
https://www.advocate.com/politics/2018/10/15/trump-nominates-gay-conservative-federal-appeals-court
President Trump is nominating judges who are recommended by the Federalist Society. Below is their purpose statement.
OUR PURPOSE
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order. It is founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be. The Society seeks both to promote an awareness of these principles and to further their application through its activities.
This entails reordering priorities within the legal system to place a premium on individual liberty, traditional values, and the rule of law. It also requires restoring the recognition of the importance of these norms among lawyers, judges, law students and professors. In working to achieve these goals, the Society has created a conservative and libertarian intellectual network that extends to all levels of the legal community.
At least Mitch is getting lots of judges approved. Congress has done nothing.
We are getting there. There will still be 16 appeals court Justices in the 9th appointed by Clinton & Obama, 13 (3 by Bush and 10 by Trump), once all nominees are confirmed.
There are 2 - 75 year old, a 74 year old & two 73 yr old, left appointed Justices remaining as well as a 78 year old Bush appointee so additional vacancies may occur for POTUS Trump to fill.
Does anyone know where i could get info on judges? I hope they’re conservatives!!
Excellent. Though I am a bit concerned about Hunsaker. Oregon has 2 Democrat Senators so a recommendation from them is not a positive in my book. If they came out spitting nails about a nomination like Feinstein is about Bumatay, I’d be much more reassured.
I usually search on their names & “nominee”
Alliance for Justice gives the Left’s take on Trump’s nominees. Anyone they hate is fine by me.
This is an article on the 11th Circuit picks
https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-could-remake-11th-circuit-with-pair-of-nominees/
This article from January of this year is on the Federalist Society’s contributions (Twenty-five of the 30 appeals court judges Trump had appointed by that point were or had been members of the society):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/01/02/feature/conquerors-of-the-courts/
Agreed.
Hunsaker was recommended by Oregon’s judicial selection committee to replace Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, the Reagan appointee with whom she clerked. This much is promising.
This is a site with a mini bio and thoughts on the political implications of each choice. I don’t know if the site itself leans right or left.
https://www.law360.com/articles/963060/law360-s-guide-to-trump-s-judicial-picks
Thank you rwa! Appreciate the info.
“Who is recommending his judicial picks? “
The Federalist Society
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Society
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