Posted on 10/30/2019 3:25:03 AM PDT by cotton1706
They're off for the weekend again after tomorrow!
Only one judge confirmed last week. And only 11 since July!
Is this Linda or the Turtle’s fault? It sure looks like slow sabotage.
There are currently 20 judges on the floor, 2 Circuit, 18 District.
Once again, the GOP needs to be threatened to try and make them do the right thing. We need a vast purge of the collaborationist party.
Keep us posted weekly
Why do we pay these people? When the hell are they going to do their freekin jobs@!?
The holdup is the district court judges. There are only 5 infilled vacancies on the Circuit Courts and 2 more nominees should be confirmed shortly. We obviously need to do away with blue slips for district court nominees too - then immediately ram through a whole bunch of nominees in short order.
Until we get rid of blue slips we are going to have a large permanent backlog of unfilled judgeships on the district courts.
Lindsey 2 just reinstated them. One might begin to wonder if Lindsey 2 was sincere about his conversion.
The vetting process through Federal Law Enforcement takes up to a year. The more complicated a nominee’s life (international travel, businesses owned, multiple marriages, etc.); the more time it takes.
This is why you see up to 9 months elapse between a nomination and the vote. Ironically, the lower court nominations take the longest typically, as these are folks that have never been through the vetting process before.
Any positive ‘hits’ in the vetting process take even more time; it can be something as simple and stupid as not paying FICA tax for an in-home nanny (Lani Guinier and Zoe Baird, anyone???); a late real-estate tax bill on a vacation home at the beach that got lost in the mail that needs to be made right before the nomination can proceed, etc.
Anyway, Mitch McConnell was quoted just last week that by the end of the Senate term for 2020, words the the effect that “No open judgeship would go unfilled.”
No worries. This is one area I have *full faith* in the Trump-McConnell steamroller in the Federal Courts.
The most recent Senate approval was for a District Court seat in Kentucky, for which the nominee received just 50 Senate votes (of 93 cast, I believe). In any event, the closer the vote, the happier I am; as that had to be one *extremely* conservative judge. The confirmation votes that go 81-13 I am less impressed by.
Anyway:
For your enjoyment:
2 USSC + 43 Circuit Court of Appeals + 110 District Court
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Donald_Trump
...and counting!!!
I live in NC and wanted to get rid of Thillis but only choice is Tucker and he don’t seem much better. Seems to bushy for me
The Rodent party seeks to freeze PT, to stop his progress. THIS is how you answer it...by moving judges by the bushel...IN THEIR FACES.
To this point there's only upside, no downside. Exact a price for their foolishness.
Anyone holding back the “blue slip” needs to get treated to a dose of black & blue balls...
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