No Judges Confirmed This Week

On Monday the Senate will move to invoke cloture on Thomas Kirsch, nominee for the 7th Circuit vacancy that resulted from now Justice Barrett's elevation.

Kirsch will be Trump's 54th Circuit confirmation in less than four years. Obama had 55 in EIGHT years.

There are two other Circuit vacancies, one on the 1st for which there is a nominee pending and one on the 7th, for which there is not yet a nominee.

The Senate Judiciary Committee moved several nominees to the floor this week. And these will likely be the last this Congress.

There are some twenty nominees that are pending before the Committee. I looked at their backgrounds and frankly we don't need them. They're likely Democrat picks nominated through deals. Mostly CA and NY districts. The nominees clerked for Nixon, Clinton and Bush judges (and not any good ones). One NY nominee clerked for Kavanaugh but that's about it. So this remaining flotsam of nominees can expire with the Congress with no tears shed.

The only nominee that should be confirmed is the nominee for the 1st Circuit vacancy. Don't know if McConnell will call a vote on this one without having been voted out of committee. He should!

I've been warning people that the GOP delegating judicial nominations to the Federalist Society was a huge mistake. The Federalist Society is a gatekeeper meant to block anyone who will actually do something to shift the Courts to the right from becoming a judge.

How many Federalist Society members sided against Trump in these lawsuits? They're all the same Neocon ilk who use excuses about precedent or standing to not take action.

I don’t see anything to dislike about these two district judges who were put on the Senate floor Dec 10th along with Thomas L. Kirsch II, & Katherine A. Crytzer. I believe that Dawson & Atchley will be confirmed as well as Kirsch & Crytzer.

Born in 1970, Joseph Dawson III received a B.A. from The Citadel in 1991 and a J.D. from the University of South Carolina Law School in 1997.[1] While a law student, Dawson worked as a clerk at the Charleston County Attorney’s Office. Upon graduation, Dawson was hired there as an Assistant County Attorney. In 2000, Dawson became Deputy County Attorney and has served as County Attorney since 2001.

A Tennessee native, Charles Edward Atchley Jr. was born in Knoxville in 1966. He graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1989 and then attended Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, graduating in 1993.[1] Atchley then joined the Office of the District Attorney General as a state prosecutor in 1994.

In 2001, Atchley became a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee.[2] Atchley became First Assistant with the Office in 2018 and has served in that capacity since. Atchley has spent virtually his entire legal career as a prosecutor, spending seven years at the state level and nineteen at the federal level. In this time, Atchley has tried more than 50 cases to judgment or verdict.[4]

During his time as a prosecutor, Atchley has handled a number of high profile cases, most notably prosecuting Allen Ho for trying to recruit nuclear experts to help the Chinese government.[5] Atchley also prosecuted Tennessee Rep. Joseph Armstrong, a Democrat, for allegedly manipulating the state’s cigarette tax system to make more than $300,000.[6] Additionally, Atchley prosecuted four Campbell County Sheriff’s deputies for the beating and torture of a suspected drug dealer.

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