Posted on 06/27/2020 3:22:46 AM PDT by cotton1706
This will be a weekly post.
Count is now 198 judges confirmed
143 District Court judges
53 Circuit Court judges
2 Supreme Court justices
This week Cory Wilson was confirmed to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals vacancy. For a long while this vacancy was in limbo since Mick Mulvaney convinced President Trump to appoint one of his cronies, Sul Ozerden, to the seat. Ozerden wasn't sufficiently conservative so kept getting votes delayed in committee, then Senators Hawley and Cruz refused to support him. The Ozerden nomination then quietly expired with the congressional session. Wilson was nominated, and is now confirmed.
Trump now has 53 confirmed Circuit judges in less than four years. This is 30% of the Circuit judges. Obama had 55 in EIGHT years.
There are no more Circuit vacancies. All have been filled and the Senate can now move to the District vacancies (there are currently 44 pending nominees, with 11 ready for votes on the floor).
With the July 4th recess coming, then Summer break, then the elections, we'll see how many of these nominations get confirmed.
One other item. Trump actually has 200 judges confirmed if you include the two to the Court of International Trade. But since this court is not a U.S. trial or appellate court I've been leaving these two out of the count. What do you think? Should I include these going forward?
how about an impeachment a week.
start with dirty emmet sullivan who
leads American ISIS and the DS as its King.
Since they are judges that must be Senate confirmed and {I assume} have lifetime appointments, and they make rulings that effect life in America, why would you not count them?
After all, you called them JUDGES.
“how about an impeachment a week.”
The problem I see with removing judges is it’s a two-edged sword. While one side would remove incompetent or blatantly ideological judges who decided cases based not on the law but on politics...the other side would be twice as fervent in viewing conservative judges through a special ideological lens. Thus would start the wholesale replacement of the judiciary every time the political winds changed.
It is better to continue with the present system and rely on higher courts to reverse political rather than legal decisions. The fact that (what I’ll call “bad”) judges are left in place when one side or the other loses power is actually an element of America’s stability. Removing those judges with each change of administration would cause anarchy.
Your research and informed commentary is much appreciated...please add your notes about the 2 trade judges in future.
I love President Donald J Trump and what he does
Traitors to the Oath should be removed,
tried, and if they are the seditionists, executed.
“Traitors to the Oath should be removed,”
Doing this requires a universal understanding of what the oath means and how it is applied. Those who live in an MSNBC/ABC etc. bubble will see things differently than the rest of us. This disagreement is legitimate. The other side may be full of bull excrement, but they believe they are right. Thus removing their allies wholesale will result in more riots. It is better to leave the unsatisfactory but legitimate means currently in use to neutralize the bad judges. It is far better to keep the present rules rather than make ones the other side will interpret to their advantage when they are in power. There WILL be another time when Democrats control both houses and the presidency. The judges Trump and Reagan have put in place will keep the US stable until the tide again changes. (Frustrating, I know.)
Thanks for your continuing to post the judicial confirmations.
The GOP Senate has got to keep on with the push to get the remaining District Court judges confirmed, even though there will be less days in session this election year. I fear Pres. Trump will not be reelected so get all the judges in now.
“how about an impeachment a week.”Well, let’s just say that it would take some “creativity” to persuade Nancy Pelosi’s House majority to impeach a liberal - and that, even assuming one miracle to accomplish that, it would take a comparable miracle to obtain a 2/3 vote in the Senate to convict.Other than those details, I’d be open to the idea in principle. </sarcasm>
Do include the CIT judges. They are created under article
III, have life tenure, jurisdiction over specified federal
Lawsuits, and can sit by designation on other federal appellate
Courts (which non-article 3 judges cannot)
As basketball ref says “count it” !
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