Posted on 09/12/2020 4:07:09 AM PDT by cotton1706
This will be a weekly poet.
Count is now 208 judges confirmed.
2 Trade Court judges
151 District Court judges
53 Circuit Court judges
2 Supreme Court justices
The five this week were confirmed by large margins, so we're getting down to Democrat recommended judges who were probably part of deals along the way. Or, there just wasn't any real objection to elevating them in that particular area.
This is actually ok, because the hard work is done. If you'll recall, during the Bush years, both Trent Lott and Bill Frist confirmed the easy ones first (and Bush was appointing a lot of moderates because he too was squeamish before the democrats).
Trump has appointed mainly conservatives and McConnell has ground the Senate through them, with now EVERY Circuit seat filled, then the more conservative District seats, and now the remaining flotsam. Easy votes to fill the time while the democrats block relief bills.
Cotton I always appreciate your work on these post. I’m unclear, were the five judges District judges?
“This will be a weekly poet.”
Shouldn’t some it rhyme then?
Yes. All the Circuit seats have been filled. All that’s left are District vacancies and one Trade vacancy.
I should’ve proof-read haha
Here’s a list, scroll down for most recently confirmed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Donald_Trump
The big thing to me that’s at stake in November - aside from the fact that Ruth Buzzard can’t hang on much longer - is that Trump could flip up to 3 more Circuit Courts if he gets 4 more years. He’s flipped several already that Obama had flipped for the Democrats.
A bunch of those Circuits have active judges who are over 70.....especially Clinton appointees.
A couple of the conservative SCOTUS are getting up in age. Hopefully President DJT will be able to replace them with younger versions of themselves guaranteeing a conservative bench for decades.
Progress, but we need to keep stacking the courts.
......so we’re getting down to Democrat recommended judges who were probably part of deals along the way.
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We shouldn’t make any deals with Democrats that get their judges confirmed. Decades of deals like that are what got the judiciary so rotten.
I agree. But from what I understand, these deals get the nominees through committee.
This coukd be fixed by eliminating the Blue Slip nonsense. But they see that as the “advice” portion of Advice & Consent.
But in reality it’s been a trick used to prevent conservative judges.
How many more vacancies are left?
73 vacancies remaining, 48 nominees pending; 4 judges for California and 4 judges for Illinois scheduled for confirmation next week.
Does that 73 vacancies include the 48 pending? Thank you.
Yes. Vacancies without nominations include 2 in Massachusetts, 6 in New Jersey 2 in California and 5 in Washington. Would you like to guess which party the uncooperative Senators from those states belong to?
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