Posted on 05/21/2019 2:22:57 PM PDT by jazusamo
For the second time in as many weeks, the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate has confirmed a California-based nominee to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit over the objections of the states two Democratic senators.
The Senate voted 53-46 on Tuesday to approve the nomination of Daniel Collins, a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles. Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris withheld the so-called blue slips for Collins that home-state senators traditionally return to the Senate Judiciary to indicate their sign off on a nominee for a federal judicial seat based in their state. The full Senate vote comes just a week after the full Senate voted 52-45 to confirm Jenner & Block partner Kenneth Lee to the Ninth Circuit, whom the senators also opposed.
While the senators opposition to Lee hinged on his initial failure to hand over controversial college writings to judicial vetters, with Collins, they raised concerns about what their judicial selection committee called issues of temperament and rigidity.
In particular, we were told that Mr. Collins has a history of taking strong litigation positions for no reason other than attempting to overturn precedent and push legal boundaries, the senators said in a joint statement in January.
(Excerpt) Read more at law.com ...
Panel I Daniel Aaron Bress*D to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Panel II Michael S. Bogren to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Michigan Stephanie Dawkins Davis to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan Jason K. PulliamDW to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas Frank William Volk to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia David Austin Tapp to be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/05/22/2019/nominations
*Federalist Society member
DOn Dianne Feinstein's sh*tlist
DWDon Willett's first law clerk and a former US Marine [Donny Ray Willett (born July 16, 1966) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and a Federalist Society member]
sounds great!
Difi has disgraced herself so thoroughly that she’s lost much, most of her support (can’t imagine she’d dare run again anyway, but that’s another long discussion, ha!)... the funny thing is that she was once reasonably well respected...
back in the Paleolithic Era when she began her political career, anyway
MAGA and KAG (Keeping America Great!)
trying to smear someone in public , without any credible evidence, and on a decades-old allegation where witnesses came forth to deny it even happened
yes, DiFi made an ass of herself ... super badly, it was a horrible spectacle
and her new young associate senator Harris is out raising campaign contributions for an office she’s pretty obviously ineligible for.... so its a big fraud just for the money...
should be prosecuted, imho
sounds great!
at least the Senate is doing SOMETHING ... attending to a little business, ha!
the House is a serious loss, embarrassment to the country...with a bunch of dishonest bozos running the circus
Look at her eyes in the pic below!
I know what invoking cloture is, but what does it mean for these four nominees? Where does that put them in the process?
Are they out of committee to the floor, or something else?
Clark, Nichols and Nielson are ALL Federalist Society members.
I just ran across an article in the Congressional Register where some weenie Dem Senator was soiling himself over the number of Federalist Society members getting judgeships.
No WONDER!!!
Thanks, it is a beautiful thing.
More good news! Thanks.
“Phone call for you, ma’am.”
“Who is it?”
“Every body in this room.”
“Tell ‘em I’m out.”
Exactly, she looks like something out of a Dracula movie.
definition of a lawyer.....
56 years old. Hopefully good for 20 years.
Nice, especially since it makes Diane et al so happy.
Oh they know it... that’s why they’re running around like rabid dogs. It’s truly disdainful.
Such a beautiful thing!
Cloture is the last step before the Senate vote on the nominee. Once cloture is invoked there is a ripening period before that vote, used to be 30 hrs now 2hrs. So these nominees should be approved this week.
Votes Scheduled: at 4:30pm TMRW, the Senate will proceed to 4 votes:
1. Confirmation of Executive Calendar #23 Howard Nielson, Jr. to be U.S. District Judge for the District of UT
2. Confirmation of #35 Stephen Clark, Sr. to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of MO
3. Confirmation of Executive Calendar #37 Carl Nichols to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia
4. Confirmation of Executive Calendar #38 Kenneth Bell to be U.S. District Judge for the Western District of North Carolina
https://twitter.com/SenateCloakroom/status/1130964828078657536
Sweeeeeeeet!
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