Interesting. I wonder if she is any relation to Uncle Remus?
Posted on 07/23/2021 12:36:53 PM PDT by Red Badger
President Biden and the Democratic-controlled Senate have installed more federal judges during the first six months of his presidency than any administration since Richard Nixon's.
Why it matters: While Democrats may spend more time talking publicly about vaccines and infrastructure, the rapid pace of both nominations and confirmations shows judges are one of the party's most urgent priorities. President Trump pushed through his own slate of judges to boost conservatives for decades.
By the numbers: Biden has had eight federal judges confirmed since taking office on Jan. 20.
* Six months into their presidencies, Trump and George H.W. Bush had each appointed four judges. Presidents Obama, George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan hadn't appointed any. Chief of Staff Ron Klain and White House counsel Dana Remus — in coordination with the Senate Judiciary Committee — are intensely focused on accelerating Biden's efforts to appoint as many judges as possible.
* The emphasis isn't just on speed but also on adding diversity that's lacking on the federal bench. Between the lines: "There has historically been this view of a certain path to a judgeship that can be over-representative of prosecutors or law-firm lawyers," said a senior administration official.
* "And so, we've focused on getting the message out to make sure that we've got talented, young members of the profession thinking, 'Oh, I could be a judge,' and expressing interest in being a judge. We're talking about people who are civil rights litigators, public defenders or might have taken other nontraditional paths toward being a judge."
* Each "first" represented by a nominee has been highlighted in the news release announcing his or her selection. Behind the scenes: Klain has made it his personal mission to undo as much of Trump's judicial legacy as he can, according to sources familiar with his efforts.
His role as chief of staff has helped give Biden — himself a lawyer and former chairman of the Judiciary Committee — a sharper focus on the courts than previous Democratic administrations.
* Remus and her team, including judicial nomination point person Paige Herwig, are doing the daily work of vetting potential judges, taking recommendations from Senate offices and interviewing candidates.
* They also write internal recommendation memos that go to Klain, a Harvard Law grad who participates in the meeting in which the nominees are decided.
* Biden met personally in the Oval Office with most of his nominees for federal appellate courts. That wasn't the practice under Obama, according to a source familiar with the process. Yes, but: Even at this pace, and even if Democrats retain control of the Senate for Biden's entire presidency, it'll be hard for him to leave as big a mark as Trump.
He ultimately appointed 226 federal judges.
* Among them were three young Supreme Court justices, solidifying a deeply conservative majority for decades. Biden almost certainly won't have the chance to create a liberal majority on the high court.
* Trump also appointed an astonishing 54 judges to the federal appeals courts that sit one step below the Supreme Court — almost as many in four years as Obama got in eight years.
* That includes 17 vacancies that were waiting for him on the day he was sworn in, thanks to confirmation slow-walking during the Obama administration by then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
* Biden got a much smaller head start after the Trump rush.
Be smart: Republicans took advantage of a multi-decade, well-funded pipeline of conservative legal talent, built largely by the Federalist Society under the leadership of Leonard Leo. Democrats simply don't have a comparable apparatus
And where has the opposition objections and fights been?
Well, that will be a gift that keeps on giving.
It’s not potatohead doing it.
Well, that will be a GRIFT that keeps on GRIFTING!................
Interesting. I wonder if she is any relation to Uncle Remus?
Only takes a simple majority.
Flimsey Grahamnesty has probably voted for all of them.
If/When they oppose the 13%, transformers or the Trotskyites they’ll be replaced through assassination.
According to John Roberts judges are strictly apolitical just like Kagan and Sotomayor are .... Bwhahahahahahaha
This is not Biden. It is time to face the reality that Biden is just plain damn senile and the left has succeeded in the greatest hoax of all.
I assure our adversaries know he is incontinent and also incompetent. Who the hell is really the President of the United States? On paper it is Joe Biden. Who is telling him what to say? He even screws up a teleprompter where all he has to do is just read the words to pre selected questions. He can not even remember the proper response to questions he was given in advance.
Who is the current president of the United States? Joe has the title but is demonstrably not competent for such.
I myself think there is a Bitch Fight between Biden’s wife and Kamala. Kamala wants Joe gone so she can become president. Joe’s wife wants Joe to remain president so she can act as president as did Mrs. Wilson when he was not competent due to illness.
Kamala and Jill both know Joe is mentally compromised.
Hornbook
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It’s Hornbook Law that the presence of “fraud” in a case by a defendant (read Biden and the Democratic Party) mitigates against the defendant(s).
All these “fraudulently” appointed judges will have to deal with that FACT at some point once Arizona, Georgia and PA, and several other possibles, decertify their elections.
What’s going to be interesting is how many “down ballot” elections are decertified.
Bingo. Why aren't the Republicans in the Senate pushing back or skipping town to show their displeasure with the "quality" of Biden's nominees?
If that tactic is good enough for the Democrats, why aren't the spineless losers the Republicans in the Senate doing it?
And Mitch and the boys allowed it
Most of the GOP Senators are really Assistant Democrats
The real POTUS is whomever is speaking to Joe via his earpiece when he says “The answer is...” followed by “blah blah”.
That’s who the real President is. Sound like anybody we know?
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