The U.S. economy shed 131,000 jobs in July, nearly double the amount analysts had hoped and predicted. The unemployment rate held steady at 9.5 percent. As employers continue to cut back on employers, there is at least one segment of the economy that has job openings that remain open. According...
"Across the country, state courts are drowning in a sea of special-interest campaign money."
New York Times editorial, Sept. 7, 2008
New York Times editorial, Sept. 7, 2008
Judicial Nomination News
New Jersey's two Democratic U.S. senators are urging President Obama to fill two federal judge vacancies with magistrates who preside in federal court in Newark. Spokesmen for Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg and Sen. Robert Menendez said today they were recommending Claire C. Cecchi and Esther Salas to become U.S. District...
The partisan standoff on judges is starting threaten our ability to administer justice. Nearly 1 in 8 federal judgeships are currently vacant, the LA Times reports, as Senate Republicans block many of President Obama's nominees. Just 47% of Obama's nominees have been approvedthe lowest rate in 30 years by a...
Congress and President Obama could do at least this much to move the unemployment needle down ever so slightly: nominate or confirm 102 judges to the federal bench. We've written a lot about this in recent months, yet this truth remains: that almost one in eight federal judgeships is vacant...
Almost one in eight U.S. judgeships is vacant, and political partisanship over confirmations is threatening the delivery of impartial justice. See details in Gavel Grab.
Victoria Nourse, a nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, would likely leap into the ranks of the wealthiest federal judges if she is confirmed. Nourse reported a household net worth of $19.8 million in a financial disclosure required as part of the Senate confirmation process....
Article II, Section 2 of the United States Constitution authorizes the president to appoint, with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, all federal judges. It has never been clear precisely what the phrase advice and consent means. In practice, though, at least when it comes to the lower federal...
Late last week, the Senate returned several of President Obama's judicial nominations to the White House -- after failing to move on them for months. About 100 judge slots -- representing 10 percent of the judicial branch -- are still waiting to be filled. Among them is Goodwin Liu, who...
After months of languishing on the U.S. Senate calendar, Judge James A. Wynn Jr. was confirmed this evening to the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, a position for which he was first nominated in the mid-1990s. Wynn, 56, was confirmed as part of a procedural move known as unanimous...
The Senate has voted 63 to 37 to confirm Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court, handing President Barack Obama his second appointee for the nine-member court. See Gavel Grab for more.
WASHINGTON Judge James Wynn of North Carolina, President Obama's nominee for the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, looked to be a safe bet for an easy Senate confirmation. He is a former Navy lawyer and a well-regarded state appellate judge with a moderate record and well-qualified rating from the...
Reporting from Washington Judge James Wynn of North Carolina, President Obama's nominee for the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, looked to be a safe bet for an easy Senate confirmation. He is a former Navy lawyer and a well-regarded state appellate judge with a moderate record and well-qualified rating...
Liberal groups are gearing up for a new round of lobbying on President Barack Obama's judicial nominees. The American Constitution Society has launched a website, JudicialNominations.org, in an attempt to highlight vacancies on the federal bench. The Center for American Progress, which advocates on a wide array of issues, is...
Before Sen. Kay Hagan's election to the U.S. Senate in 2008, the word in places like Raleigh and Chapel Hill was that if you needed help with a problem in Washington, call Sen. Richard Burr. He could cut through red tape, intervene with intransigent bureaucrats and help move things along....
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee was scheduled to take up Thursday the nomination of a Mississippi lawyer to the federal bench. The nomination of Jackson attorney Carlton W. Reeves to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi was among another a dozen on...
