Posted on 12/05/2020 2:22:04 AM PST by cotton1706
This will be a weekly post.
Count is now 229 judges confirmed.
3 Trade Court judges
170 District Court judges
53 Circuit Court judges
3 Supreme Court justices
There are currently only four District judges awaiting votes on the floor. There are several Claims judges awaiting votes that that the Senate has been working through also.
But the remaining nominees are still in committee (and some may be Democrat picks nominated through deals).
The Judiciary committee will be voting a number of judges to the floor on the 10th, including Thomas Kirsch, nominee for the 7th Circuit.
We’re going to miss that if Stacey Abrams, the dems, RINOs and some FReepers get their way in Georgia on Jan. 5.
Question for the person who knows:
What will the confirmation process look like that takes place between Jan 3rd and Jan 20th?
How likely is it that we can continue to get confirmations during this period?
some relevant facts/assumptions about this period:
-A new session of congress will have convened, and that may require a new submission by the President of those nominees that were not confirmed in the previous session. (???)
-Pence will still be VP able to break tie votes.
-Loeffler will remain Senator until the election winner is certified by Georgia and sworn in (so even if she loses she will be there)
-Perdue’s term will have expired, so we have a vacancy until certification and swearing in
either the R’s get their act together in Georgia or the D’s are going to steal two more Senate Seats!!!!!!!!!!!!! it is so obvious how the D’s are busing citizens of OTHER STATES into Georgia to pick up ballots!
Don’t expect any confirmations between Jan 3rd and Jan 20th. Generally a new Congress has several weeks of organizing. The last Congress didn’t get to any nominations till I think February.
And if Biden IS to be inaugurated, they would be preparing for HIS nominees.
So focus on the current Congress. I expect the Senate to confirm as many as possible, and the rest will expire. And those that expire might be Dem picks arranged through deals anyway.
There are three Circuit vacancies, two with nominees. I expect those to be filled.
Did you count the Article I judges Liam Hardy (U.S. Court of Appeals of for the Armed Forces) and Kathryn C. Davis (U.S. Court of Federal Claims), or just the two Article III judges for this week?
I stick with Article III judges since they’re permanent.
Yes, these two Article I judges are only for 15 years. Then we get stooges like the DACA schlub Nicholas Garaufis who is going to be around for another 15 years if we're unlucky, after having been a stain on ED New York for 20 years already. :(
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