Posted on 11/06/2024 12:42:43 PM PST by bitt
The next president will appoint more than 100 federal judges to the bench, providing an opportunity to mold the federal judiciary towards his or her liking.
As of Election Day, there were six vacancies on the high-profile federal circuit courts, and 61 district court vacancies waiting to be filled.
According to recent history, a new president on average has between 200 and 250 Article III judicial appointments during the course of four years in office.
During his first administration, former President Donald Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices, 54 circuit court judges and 174 district court jurists. The impact of his Supreme Court appointments was far-reaching, creating a solid conservative majority that overturned the Roe v. Wade abortion precedent in 2022.
President Biden has appointed one Supreme Court justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, 44 circuit court and 166 district court judges.
But what is not clear is how many judicial vacancies Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, will move to fill during the lame-duck session between Election Day and January.
“There’s certainly some forecasting to be done, but there are a number of factors that keep it hard to calculate precisely,” said Zack Ford, a spokesperson with Alliance for Justice.
Those factors also include how many current judges will consider retiring.
“I do think it’s easy to say that there will be considerably fewer vacancies than the past two administrations have started with, dating back to the numerous positions [Senator Mitch] McConnell held open by not processing [former President Barack] Obama’s nominees at the end his administration,” Mr. Ford said.
Mike Davis, president of the Article III Project, estimates that there could be 37 circuit court judges eligible for senior status and 80 district court appointments when the new president is sworn in on Inauguration Day.
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Let’s hope he replaces the Fat, Diabetic Latina in short order.
Retirement time for Thomas and Alito?
Yeah, she’s been Type 1 for almost all of her life. They didn’t even have test strips back in the beginning.
Can the Senate expand the Supreme Court between now and the end of the year?
Let’s gooooooo
Ted Cruz Majority Leader
JMO, YMMV
i hope he replaces them all.
“Retirement time for Thomas and Alito?”
I hope so. The time is right. They should not let ego get in the way and wind up in the same situation RBG was in.
Congress needs to eliminate the DC Federal District Court
They created it, they can eliminate it
It has simply become the national kangaroo court for DOJ federal political prosecutions. Its juries are all DC residents and select Federal employees, taken from a place that votes 92% left in every electrion
It it NO WAY represents “justice.”
Dissolve the Federal courts. Create 50 circuit courts, one for each state, where each state selects their own Federal Judge and their rulings only apply to their own state.
How about impeaching the bad ones?
kBJ can’t even define what a woman is and she was the best fjb and kamalatoe could find!
He would really impress me if he was able to get many of the liberal judges that violated the law against him impeached and off the bar.
One thing they need to address is the slam dunk conviction rate of political prosecutions in the DC district.
Trump should (jokingly) ask congress to expand SCOTUS to 13 or more justices where he would make all the republican nominations for the new additions. Then let’s see how the democrats feel about making the supreme court an expansion of the presidency and the legislative branch, and irrelevant.
Time for change in the Washington DC courts—start there.
I was thinking the same thing. Thomas in particular has served his country far beyond the call of duty. If I were he and wanted to retire, I’d be tempted to thank Joe for his treatment of me during my confirmation hearings by announcing my retirement effective January 21
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